A novel emulation concept for the test of smart contracts in the energyeconomy

Abstract

This paper presents a novel emulation concept for the test of smartcontracts and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) in distributecontrol or energy economy tasks and use cases. The concept usesstate of the art behavioral modeling tools such as Matlab Simulinkbut presents a possible way to solve the shortfall of Simulink incommunicating to DLT-Nodes directly. This is solved througha middleware solution. After this, an example used in verifyingthe test bed is presented and the target demonstration object is de-scribed. Finally, the possible expansion of the system is discussedand presented.