A Blockchain based Secure IoT Solution for the Dam Surveillance

Abstract

The use of Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) in monitoring the dam site will offer many benefits. In fact, it is very requisite to periodically monitor the quality and level of water in the reservoir and the weather conditions to predict the input flow into the reservoir. Moreover, it is crucial to monitor the dam structure to acquire health and safety condition of the dam infrastructure in real time and prevent the occurrence of events. In this paper, we propose a system architecture composed of a sensor cloud and an UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) cloud designed for the surveillance of a dam site. The sensor cloud provides various sensing data and the UAV cloud collects these data and delivers them to the dam monitoring center (DMC). Our system is based on the Blockchain (BC) technology which provides authentication, storage, data integrity, traceability of the delivery task of the UAV cloud, and payment of the entities that are responsible for the sensing and delivery tasks. A simulation is conducted to evaluate the performance of the solution.