Energy-efficient graph learning with blockchain–IoT integration for secure smart city energy management
摘要
The increase in connected renewables across metro grids of smart cities has driven a need for coordination that is secure, adaptive, sustainable, and flexible. This need is not met by centralized control systems, which are struggling under scaling challenges, cyber threats, and a lack of granularity in the spatial and temporal correlations of energy use. In this work, we address these challenges by proposing a graph learning approach augmented with gradient boosting techniques to improve demand forecasting, and a distributed ledger framework to ensure trusted, low-latency coordination of diverse IoT devices. The system uses PBFT for consensus and zk-STARKs to ensure privacy-preserving validation of energy transactions. The MATLAB/Simulink and Hyperledger Fabric co-simulation illustrates that the proposed design reaches 95.3% operational efficiency, 2.1% forecasting error (MAPE), 980 transactions per second throughput, and scales to 25,000 nodes maintaining an average latency of 1.1 s. Looking at centralized baselines existing methods, our representations have an improvement of 1.1% in accuracy, a 9.4% in efficiency, and—more importantly—more than double the transaction rate. These results show the promise of the framework to enable resilient and sustainable energy infrastructures for the cities of tomorrow.