@inproceedings{NotholtColl-Mayor2020, author = {Notholt, Antonio and Coll-Mayor, Debora}, title = {A novel emulation concept for the test of smart contracts in the energy economy}, booktitle = {Renewable energy \& power quality journal : RE\&PQJ}, volume = {18}, issn = {2172-038X}, doi = {10.24084/repqj18.477}, institution = {Technik}, pages = {711 -- 715}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This paper presents a novel emulation concept for the test of smart contracts and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) in distribute control or energy economy tasks and use cases. The concept uses state of the art behavioral modeling tools such as Matlab Simulink but presents a possible way to solve the shortfall of Simulink in communicating to DLT-Nodes directly. This is solved through a middleware solution. After this, an example used in verifying the test bed is presented and the target demonstration object is described. Finally, the possible expansion of the system is discussed and presented.}, language = {en} }