An architecture for distributed ledger-based M2M auditing for Electric Autonomous Vehicles

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new distributed ledger-based architecture for secure, privacy-preserving M2M charging and billing in Electric Autonomous Vehicles, enabling autonomous transactions without human involvement.

Contribution

It introduces a novel architecture and billing framework leveraging DLT to facilitate autonomous M2M transactions in EAVs, addressing privacy and security concerns.

Findings

Design of a distributed ledger-based charging architecture

Framework enabling autonomous M2M billing for EAVs

Enhanced privacy and security in vehicle transactions

Abstract

Electric Autonomous Vehicles (EAVs) promise to be an effective way to solve transportation issues such as accidents, emissions and congestion, and aim at establishing the foundation of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) economy. For this to be possible, the market should be able to offer appropriate charging services without involving humans. The state-of-the-art mechanisms of charging and billing do not meet this requirement, and often impose service fees for value transactions that may also endanger users and their location privacy. This paper aims at filling this gap and envisions a new charging architecture and a billing framework for EAV which would enable M2M transactions via the use of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).