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recording and sharing anonymized B2C account based payments. These system. Blockchain by its architecture
travel reports with the MaaS authorities. additional services are not a part of is data-intensive and distributive and
This is the industry’s first project to the dataspace itself and therefore the a single server location will not work
be successfully implemented across a economies of scale and networking and cannot handle such vast amounts
large scale while meeting the required effects will be critical. The more the of data. With the increasing use of
government norms. participants, much easier an ecosystem blockchain technology, the amount of
it will be for data providers and data data stored worldwide increased from
MaaS is being implemented mainly users alike. The data is user driven 20GB in 2014 to more than 200GBs in
in Europe and the US as a means to and the system requires a neutral 2020 – a ten-fold increase without any
decongest the roads and improve approach with decisions jointly significant application in the modern
the efficiency and serviceability of the taken by the MaaS service providers, world. It is unimaginable the amounts
existing transport systems. Due to the Transport & Transaction operators and of data Indian cities can generate. And
involvement of multiple organizations governmental bodies. with the blockchain being indestructible
in MaaS, the promotion of anonymized by design, previous records cannot be
open data and decentralized data With scalability of the processing deleted to make space for new ones.
management is a necessity in the future power and security of data, Sony’s It is unchartered territory as to how to
data-driven era. According to Sony, BCDB can be implemented in the Indian manage such a huge expanse of data.
BCDB is a decentralized information ecosystem for the metro cities. Indian
platform and while improving the metros have unique challenges with the For the growth of the MaaS industry
efficiency of travel, can also suggest sheer number of people working there it is imperative to provide additional
measures for future smart city plans from the various strata of the society. cost for the integrity and transparency
by analyzing and utilizing movement To gain active users for the software of the entire system and among the
records and revenue generated. BCDB across the social order, it needs to be related entities. This cost is likely to
has the option of scalability for being affordable for the common man as well increase with the increase in the scale
implemented in large cities and can as have capabilities that allow it to work and complexity of the blockchain. Also
simultaneously be implemented in in areas with low available bandwidths, the entire management of the data by
multiple sectors of smart cities. or in critical situations without standard the consortium or corporation needs
internet services. If applied in the to be critically reviewed from time to
The MaaS dataspace provides Indian scenario, additional challenges time to protect the data privacy of the
secure exchange and easy linkage of are to manage the huge amount of users along with providing open data
data allowing B2B remittances and data that will be generated in the for analysis and growth of the industry.

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