Smart Cities: Potentialities and Challenges in a Context of Sharing Economy

TL;DR

This paper explores how blockchain and IoT technologies can enhance smart city initiatives within the sharing economy, highlighting benefits, challenges, and potential for innovation and product development.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of the role of blockchain and IoT in smart cities, emphasizing their potential to foster innovation and address challenges in sharing economy contexts.

Findings

Technology platforms support product development and innovation

Blockchain and IoT can improve smart city project efficiency

Identifies key challenges in implementing these technologies

Abstract

The purpose of the present paper is to show how blockchain and IoT technologies can benefit smart city projects, which tend to spread in the context of the sharing economy. The article also aims to describe the challenges and potentialities of smart city projects. It was found that technology platforms can serve as a strategy to build the basis for product development (goods and services) and technology-based innovation.