Blockchain-based traceability in Agri-Food supply chain management: A practical implementation

Pincheira, Miguel; Ali, Muhammad Salek; Vecchio, Massimo; Giaffreda, Raffaele

doi:10.1109/iot-tuscany.2018.8373021

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“…Another blockchain-based traceability system (i.e. AgriBlockIoT) for the agri-food supply chain was developed by Caro et al 20 The AgriBlockIoT is a fully decentralized system in which IoT devices using two different blockchain implementations (i.e. Ethereum and Hyperledger Sawtooth), could permit a safety food traceability with smart innovations on digital data.…”

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A review on blockchain applications in the agri‐food sector

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BACKGROUND Food security can benefit from the technology's transparency, relatively low transaction costs and instantaneous applications. A blockchain is a distributed database of records in the form of encrypted blocks, or a public ledger of all transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties and can be verified at any time in the future. Generally, the robust and decentralized functionality of the blockchain is used for global financial systems, but it can easily be expanded to contracts and operations such as tracking of the global supply chain. In the precision agriculture context, Information and Communications Technology can be further implemented with a blockchain infrastructure to enable new farm systems and e‐agriculture schemes. RESULTS The purpose of this review is to show a panorama of the scientific studies (enriched by a terms mapping analysis) on the use of blockchain in the agri‐food sector, from both an entirely computational and an applicative point of view. As evidenced by the network analysis, the reviewed studies mainly focused on software aspects (e.g. the architecture and smart contracts). However, some aspects regarding the different blockchain knots (computers always connected to the blockchain network) having the role to store and distribute an updated copy of each block in a food supply‐chain, result of crucial importance. CONCLUSION These technologies appear very promising and rich of great potential showing a good flexibility for applications in several sectors but still immature and hard to apply due to their complexity. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry

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“…Summarising, some of the articles of the first cluster (i.e., four out of 10) are strongly focused on the use of blockchain technology, with the aim of ensuring product traceability in food chains [45,75,77,82]. Although several frameworks have been introduced over the past few decades to protect food quality and safety, many limitations still remain and the blockchain can be a valuable means of overcoming them.…”

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“…Practically, the vast majority of the documents that belong to the macro-clusters C 1 and C 2 and that are listed in Tables 5-10 present ideas and concepts that are applied without developing and implementing a real blockchain. Some of them propose new platforms just at a concept level [45,51,52,75,77,83,84,88,89,91], some of them present proofs of their concepts [76,79,81], and only three of them present a real implementation based on real blockchains: [78,80,82].…”

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“…In detail, for the macro-cluster C 1 , related mostly to traceability problems in supply and logistics, the only listed paper that introduces a real implementation based on a new blockchain is [80], which introduces the private developed blockchain OriginChain. Papers [78,82] also propose real implementations, but based on existing blockchains: Ethereum [78] and Ethereum and Hyperledger [82]. Other works in macro-cluster C 1 propose a proof of concept based on Ethereum [79], Matlab [81], and an experimental blockchain based on three nodes [76].…”

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A Review of Blockchain-Based Systems in Transportation

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This paper presents a literature review about the application of blockchain-based systems in transportation. The main aim was to identify, through the implementation of a multi-step methodology: current research-trends, main gaps in the literature, and possible future challenges. First, a bibliometric analysis was carried out to obtain a broad overview of the topic of interest. Subsequently, the most influential contributions were analysed in depth, with reference to the following two areas: supply chain and logistics; road traffic management and smart cities. The most important result is that the blockchain technology is still in an early stage, but appears extremely promising, given its possible applications within multiple fields, such as food track and trace, regulatory compliance, smart vehicles' security, and supply-demand matching. Much effort is still necessary for reaching the maturation stage because several models have been theorized in recent years, but very few have been implemented within real contexts. Moreover, the link blockchain-sustainability was explored, showing that this technology could be the trigger for limiting food waste, reducing exhaust gas emissions, favouring correct urban development, and, in general, improving quality of life.

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“…The work presented in [44] does not evaluate the performance of the blockchain technology applied in support of the community and the possibilities of communication with the blockchain network. The same is approached in [45] in managing the agro-food supply chain through the use of IoT of the consumption data.…”

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Implementing Blockchain Technology in Irrigation Systems That Integrate Photovoltaic Energy Generation Systems

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Traditionally, the energy industry has been slow in adopting new disruptive technologies and the transition to a new energy market will require a new digital transformation plan, involving all parties from the energy market. Although it now seems to be an impossible and hard-to-accept scenario, especially by the big players in the industry, the pilot projects so far demonstrate that blockchain can play a major role in the future energy market, even if the technology is still in the first stages of the adoption life cycle. This article attempts to describe a solution to provide alternative irrigation systems for small farmers. The solution involves creating associations of small farmers that will use green energy from photovoltaic panels for the irrigation of agricultural lands. The efficiency of the proposed system can be monitored not only through digital hardware connected to photovoltaic panels and water pumps, but also by using the new blockchain technology that stimulates innovation and growth in the energy and a high level of automation though smart contracts. To accelerate the transition to the green energy economy, a SolarCoin version similar to the Bitcoin cryptocurrency has also been proposed, which is a utility token that creates new possibilities for energy and water trading.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1540 2 of 30 photovoltaic panels can still be used at high capacity to supplement the energy required to run the farm [4,12,13].Photovoltaic systems are ideal in isolated areas that do not have access to the national energy system. Below, the most important advantages of applying the photovoltaic systems in agriculture have been listed [14-16]:

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Blockchain-based traceability in Agri-Food supply chain management: A practical implementation

Cited by 593 publications

References 7 publications

A review on blockchain applications in the agri‐food sector

A review on blockchain applications in the agri‐food sector

A Review of Blockchain-Based Systems in Transportation

Implementing Blockchain Technology in Irrigation Systems That Integrate Photovoltaic Energy Generation Systems

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