Implementation of a secure storage using Blockchain for PCA-FRF sensor data of plate-like structures
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Abstract
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems have widely been used to guarantee the safe functioning of electrical, mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering assets. It is required to improve the SHM systems from different aspects in terms of smartification, performance, beneficiation, sustainment, automation, cost-effectivity, and safety using cutting-edge technologies. Blockchain is currently the most revolutionary technology in computer science. Implementation of Blockchain in different fields of academia and industry has recently given very good results. However, application of Blockchain in SHM is still in the infancy stage. Therefore, many challenges are still ahead. One of the main potential applications of Blockchain is to secure the sensor data. In this study, a local Blockchain approach is developed as a secure storage using the extracted Principal Components (PCs) of Frequency Response Function (FRF) data obtained from modal analysis of a plate-like structure. In general, Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) is one of the most practical hash functions with efficient performance which has been employed in Bitcoin. Therefore, in this research, SHA-256 is considered to generate the hash for each block. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to develop a secure storage for SHM data using Blockchain.
Keywords
Blockchains, Data mining, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Big Data, Storage management, Vibration measurement, Data security, Frequency response, Principal component analysis, Biomedical monitoring, Medical services, Blockchain, Data security, Frequency response function, Industry 40, Modal analysis, Principal component analysis, Structural health monitoring, Big data
Divisions
sch_civ,mechanical
Funders
Impact-Oriented Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IIRG) Program (Grant No: IIRG007A-2019 & IIRG007B-2019)
Publication Title
IEEE Access
Volume
10
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Publisher Location
445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141 USA