An Implemented Open Source Blockchain Market for Smart Grids and Microgrids Using Autonomous Agents.

This article presents a system for creating an implemented open energy market for future smart grid systems, microgrids, the Internet of Things, and the Industrial Internet of Things. We also investigate and analyze different aspects of blockchain technologies for this purpose in order to choose the appropriate methods, technologies, and approaches for realizing and implementing the system as an open source project. Based on this analysis, we present our resulting functional implementation of this energy market. Including measurements and a quantitative evaluation of the implementation itself. Showing the potential of the approach, where this implantation can be applied, showing its drawbacks, and finally our planned future work.