Real-Time Monitoring and Control of Drones Using IoT-Blockchain Integration

This work presents an IoT-Blockchain integration solution to enhance the typical Drone systems to acquire optimal organizational performance. Several questions that are associated with modern drone operations are solved by the suggested system, and these questions are the following: data security, efficiency of work, and system scalability. Concerning the experimental results, the boost in the realism of the data transfer rates can also be seen - the mean rate is increased from 500 to 1200 KB/s, thus enabling real-time control. Another effect of Smart Contracts was reducing the time it took to carry out operational activities to which the contracts were applied. For instance, the time taken to route a flight to save time was brought down from 10 minutes to 2 minutes, the time to allocate resources for the flight was brought down from 15 minutes to 3 minutes, and the time to schedule maintenance of the flight was brought down from 20 minutes to 5 minutes. It also presented the framework’s performance metrics, such as a 0% data breach incidence rate different from the annual average of 12 in centralized traditional systems. This goes well with Blockchain’s ability to house information in a record that can never be altered, providing data security and credibility. However, the system also proved scalability as the number of drones changed from 10 to 100, and the throughput changed from 100 to 920 TPS. Also, the system latency remained below 70 ms during this process, which is critical for responsive trading applications.