Last week, South Korea’s Sejong city government said it is developing a blockchain platform for verifying autonomous cars under its planned smart city solutions, reported Aju Business Daily. The project is hosted by LG CNS. Sejong was founded only a decade ago as a planned city and is the testbed for smart city solutions.
The blockchain solution aims to verify the digital identities of self-driving cars and their systems. It addresses the problem of security of connected mobility, which entails information sharing between autonomous vehicles and other smart city infrastructure. Without adequate security, there’s a risk that hackers could cause accidents, for example, by communicating an incorrect traffic light signal. Decentralized identitifiers address the risk of a centralized store of identities to hack.
The Sejong city government said it would develop the blockchain platform in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Internet & Security Agency. An announcement stated that the total budget is a billion Korean won ($817,000) and the pilot will take place next year.
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