Blockchain-based Crowd-sensing Trust Management Mechanism for Crowd Evacuation

With the continuous urban expansion, the safety of public places has attracted more and more attention. Once an accident occurs and people distrust their surroundings, it will cause congestion, trampling and other events. Individual trust value is particularly important in crowd evacuation. However, it is very difficult to evaluate the individual credibility with existing methods. We propose a blockchain-based crowd-sensing trust management mechanism (B-CSTM) to address this problem. First, we provide a message credibility evaluation mechanism that can evaluate the credibility of messages sent by individuals on spot. Second, we developed a trust calculation method that uses a distributed Evacuation Perception Unit (EPU) to calculate individuals’ trust values by perception scores. Finally, we build a blockchain-based trust management mechanism model that uses blockchain to store and query trust values. Through experimental analysis, we visualize the trust results in the evacuation scenario. It is shown that the mechanism is feasible for the management of trust values (collection, calculation and storage, etc.) in crowd evacuation.