Real-Time Energy Monitoring in IoT-enabled Mobile Devices
This addresses energy billing fraud for IoT device users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing IoT and Blockchain technologies.
The paper tackles the problem of fraud in IoT-enabled device-level energy metering by proposing a decentralized architecture using Blockchain for verification and secure storage, showing through evaluations that it supports device mobility and enables location-independent monitoring.
With rapid advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, electrical devices in the near future is expected to have IoT capabilities. This enables fine-grained tracking of individual energy consumption data of such devices, offering location-independent per-device billing. Thus, it is more fine-grained than the location-based metering of state-of-the-art infrastructure, which traditionally aggregates on a building or household level, defining the entity to be billed. However, such in-device energy metering is susceptible to manipulation and fraud. As a remedy, we propose a decentralized metering architecture that enables devices with IoT capabilities to measure their own energy consumption. In this architecture, the device-level consumption is additionally reported to a system-level aggregator that verifies distributed information and provides secure data storage using Blockchain, preventing data manipulation by untrusted entities. Using evaluations on an experimental testbed, we show that the proposed architecture supports device mobility and enables location-independent monitoring of energy consumption.