MUMBAI, India, Aug. 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641090618 A) filed by Dayananda Sagar Academy Of Technology And Management; and Dayananda Sagar University on July 25, 2026, for Carbon-Adaptive Consensus Controlled Iot Network With Energy-Aware Blockchain Validation.
Inventors include Prof. Chaitra Bv; Prof. Mala B A; Prof. Bharath M B; Dr. Benaka Santhosha S; Prof. Vishwas D B; Prof. Dharmendra D P; Dr. Sudeep Kumara K.; and Dr. Santosh Kumar J.
The application for the patent was published on July 31, 2026, under issue no. 31/2026.
Abstract: Sustainability is a crucial issue for decentralized systems with the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) networks and the emergence of blockchain-based applications, their growth has made sustainability a critical challenge, causing a significant increase in energy consumption and carbon emissions. The well-known blockchain consensus protocols are mainly security and decentralization-conscious, without considering the environmental impact of validator nomination and transaction validation. The present invention proposes Carbon-Adaptive Consensus Controlled IoT Network with Energy-Aware Blockchain Validation, a sustainable solution that dynamically optimizes blockchain validators based on both carbon emissions and residual energy, trust score, renewable energy availability, network latency and computational workload. The proposed system keeps track of the operational status of the IoT devices and blockchain nodes using the intelligent carbon monitoring engine, which calculates a Dynamic Green Trust Score (DGTS) for every validator. An energy-efficient and environmentally friendly validator is then selected by a carbon-adaptive consensus controller that maintains the security of the blockchain, the integrity of transactions, and the performance of the network. The smart contracts automatically log validator energy consumption, carbon footprint, and renewable energy usage within an immutable blockchain ledger, facilitating clear carbon auditing and green compliance. The invention combines the carbon-aware decision making with energy-efficient blockchain validation, which altogether alleviate energy use, carbon emissions, extend lifetime of IoT devices and improve the sustainability of decentralized IoT systems. The proposed framework is applicable to smart cities, industrial IoT, healthcare monitoring, intelligent transportation, smart grids, agricultural IoT, and other environmentally conscious cyber-physical systems requiring secure, scalable, and energy-efficient blockchain operations.
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