The Faculty of Electrical Engineering participates in International Research on Green Energy for Blockchain Computing

A team from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of West Bohemia, led by František Steiner, has succeeded in a prestigious international grant call and has become the principal investigator of the RECKON project (Green Energy for Cloud Blockchain Computing).

“The main focus of the RECKON project is to find a smart way to make the best possible use of locally produced green energy. The energy will be used for computing systems that provide blockchain services – with the help of modern technologies such as the Internet of Things and shared computing capacity,” explained co-investigator David Rot. Blockchain services are smart online services that securely store and share data between people without the need for an intermediary.

The project RECKON focuses on several key areas. These include maximizing the efficient use of green energy for blockchain computing, optimizing energy management and distribution within the network to reduce infrastructure modernization costs and balance energy supply and demand, lowering the operational costs of cloud computing services while increasing their economic efficiency, and developing a scalable and heterogeneous blockchain system that enables efficient use of available computing capacity.

The first official meeting of the project partners took place on March 25 in Istanbul, Turkey. Each of the teams presented their infrastructure and their professional contribution to the implementation of individual parts of the project. The established cooperation will continue in the next years, as the teams proceed with the development of advanced solutions for the sustainable and efficient management of computing resources in the field of blockchain services.

The project brings together key research and industrial partners from several European countries, including Alpplas Endüstriyel Yatırımlar and AYRO Teknoloji Tic. Ltd. Sti. (Turkey), Smart Charging Ltd. (Hungary), and TBE electric s.r.o. and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Czech Republic). The project is realized under the Eurogia 2030 program (a cluster of the EUREKA network), which supports international technological cooperation between research institutions and industrial partners.