| Title | BlockSee: Blockchain for IoT Video Surveillance in Smart Cities |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Gallo, Pierluigi, Pongnumkul, Suporn, Quoc Nguyen, Uy |
| Conference Name | 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I CPS Europe) |
| Date Published | jun |
| Keywords | bitcoin, blockchain-based video surveillance system, BlockSee, camera settings, Cameras, contracts, cps privacy, cyber physical systems, data privacy, distributed city-wide monitoring systems, heterogeneous owners, Human Behavior, human factors, Internet of Things, IoT video surveillance, jointly provides validation, malicious users, mechanical settings, multiple video-flows, observed scene, physical manipulations, privacy, privacy issues, pubcrawl, smart cities, Urban areas, urban environments, video cameras, video frames, video surveillance |
| Abstract | The growing demand for safety in urban environments is supported by monitoring using video surveillance. The need to analyze multiple video-flows from different cameras deployed around the city by heterogeneous owners introduces vulnerabilities and privacy issues. Video frames, timestamps, and camera settings can be digitally manipulated by malicious users; the positions of cameras, their orientation and their mechanical settings can be physically manipulated. Digital and physical manipulations may have several effects, including the change of the observed scene and the potential violation of neighbors' privacy. To face these risks, we introduce BlockSee, a blockchain-based video surveillance system that jointly provides validation and immutability to camera settings and surveillance videos, making them readily available to authorized users in case of events. The encouraging results obtained with BlockSee pave the way to new distributed city-wide monitoring systems. |
| DOI | 10.1109/EEEIC.2018.8493895 |
| Citation Key | gallo_blocksee_2018 |
BlockSee: Blockchain for IoT Video Surveillance in Smart Cities