HydroChain
The Blockchain for Hydropower
HydroChain
The Blockchain for Hydropower
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The Blockchain for Hydropower
Hydropower plants depend on reliable flow and water level data. During construction phase the site shouldn’t be flooded, if a flood is arriving, the workers should be warned to save them and the equipment. Especially during operational phase trusted data is very important for reservoir schemes, as the operational planning depends on the forecasts based on such data.
Hydropower plants depend on reliable flow and water level data. During construction phase the site shouldn’t be flooded, if a flood is arriving, the workers should be warned to save them and the equipment. Especially during operational phase trusted data is very important for reservoir schemes, as the operational planning depends on the forecasts based on such data.
But operational level measurements for hydroelectric power plants are often subject to measurement errors and transmission errors. Often wood is blocking the river, bees make their nest in precipitation measurement devices (so called ombrometers) or simply the GSM or satellite data connection is erogenous, or worst de data is tampered.
The system to be developed is to validate the hydrological measured values with the help of a simulation tailored to the respective catchment area and then store them in encrypted form in a distributed database. As a consensus algorithm, the novel concept of the "Proof of Hydrology" will thus be used for the first time in a DLT system.
The novelty of this system is the automatic validation, with simultaneous storage using DLT technology, which is particularly secure against cyber-attacks due to the encryption technology used.
The novelty of this system is the automatic validation, with simultaneous storage using DLT technology, which is particularly secure against cyber-attacks due to the encryption technology used.
The blockchain system makes it possible to make the data available only to selected participants in the network or to trade with it. The authorship of the data is thus preserved within the system at all times. Due to the decentralized approach and the non-existent central server, the trust between the different participants in the network is strengthened and cooperation becomes possible where it was previously unthinkable. This is of particular interest in catchment areas with different hydropower operators, as they usually act as competitors.
This should lead to improved forecasts for hydropower plants and thus, for example, to improved management of hydropower reservoirs.
Status quo: conceptual phase
Status quo: conceptual phase
Methodical steps
1) Testing different Distributed Ledger (DLT) technologies for applicability:
a. Hyperledger Fabric
b. Hyperledger Sawtooth
c. Ocean Protocol + Chainlink
d. Energy Web Foundation (EWF) + Chainlink
2) Development of a Proof of Concept (PoC)
a. Preparation of the input data
b. Programming the blockchain
i. Permissioned Blockchain
ii. At least 3 nodes
iii. Distinction between endorsing nodes, committing nodes and ordering nodes
iv. Development of an Endorsement Policy
v. Installation of a billing system using tokens based on ERC20
c. Testing the system
3) Development of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
a. Extension to at least 25 nodes
b. Installation of a Governance System
c. Programming of the web interface to connect to the existing AFRY Hydro DSS of AFRY Austria GmbH
d. Testing the MVP
4) Development of the operational system
a. Porting of the nodes of Docker Containers to executable nodes at the customers
b. Scaling to 100+ nodes
c. User Guide
d. Performance tests (scaling)-
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