IPFS and Blockchain Based Reliability and Availability Improvement for Integrated Rivers’ Streamflow Data

Mughal, Muhammad Hussain; Shaikh, Zubair A.; Ali, Khurshed; Ali, Safdar; Hassan, Saif

doi:10.1109/access.2022.3178728

Cited by 11 publications

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“…There are two pilot project-level studies in this category in the reviewed literature. Mughal et al [62] conduct a pilot project emphasizing blockchain-enabled solutions for enhancing Pakistan's data-intensive decision support systems. The consistency, immutability, and dependability of streamflow time series data are maintained using a private blockchain that is built on the Hyperledger Fabric platform.…”

Section: Water Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain Opportunities for Water Resources Management: A Comprehensive Review

Satilmisoglu,

Sermet,

Kurt

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Blockchain technology has been used for the digitalization of physical asset management and data management processes in many areas in the industry and academia, including the water domain. Its potential as an immutable data storage system and smart contract integration has provided a plethora of use cases and utility in the domain of hydrology and water resources. This systematic review critically examines the application of blockchain technology in the field of water resources and hydrology. By analyzing 104 academic publications and 37 non-academic studies from 2017 to 15 October 2022, this paper identifies the current state of blockchain applications in water management, delineates their potential use cases, and assesses their practical utility and scalability. Despite the theoretical promise of blockchain for enhancing water governance, data security, and stakeholder trust, the review reveals a noticeable gap between theoretical potential and the existence of workable, real-time applications specifically in water resources management. The findings indicate that while blockchain technology has been effectively implemented in various sectors, its adoption in hydrological domain is still emerging, with limited empirical evidence to support full-scale deployment. The paper concludes with a call for more empirical research to validate theoretical benefits, address scalability and interoperability challenges, and integrate blockchain technology with real-time data networks for sustainable water management practices.

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Section: Water Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain Opportunities for Water Resources Management: A Comprehensive Review

Satilmisoglu,

Sermet,

Kurt

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…There are two pilot project-level studies in this category in the reviewed literature. Mughal et al (2022) conduct a pilot project emphasizing blockchain-enabled solutions for enhancing Pakistan's data-intensive decision-support systems. The consistency, immutability, and dependability of streamflow time series data were maintained using a private blockchain that was built on the Hyperledger Fabric platform.…”

Section: Water Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain Applications and Opportunities for Water Resources and Hydrology: A Systematic Review

Satilmsioglu¹,

Sermet²,

Demir³

2023

Preprint

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Although blockchain technology was first applied for peer-to-peer financial transactions, it has been used for the digitalization of physical asset management and data management processes in many areas in the industry and academia, including the water domain. Its potential as an immutable data storage system and smart contract integration has provided a plethora of use cases and utility in the domain of hydrology and water resources. In this article, a comprehensive systematic literature review on blockchain applications, opportunities and challenges for the water sector is conducted. The study provides the examination of academic publications, technical reports, whitepapers, hackathon projects, non-academic content and evaluation of the published year, focused hydrology sub-domain, utilized blockchain networks, tools, and development level of application of reviewed content. The current status of blockchain technology in the hydrology literature, potential application areas in the water sector, research gaps, and challenges are discussed from different perspectives, and future study areas are recommended.

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“…Thus, it can be used to avoid storing data on-chain, which can be quite costly, and for provenance-based trust management on shared data, the blockchain would store file hashes on IPFS. IPFS is used effectively with huge files that consume or necessitate a significant amount of bandwidth to upload and/or download over the Network [25], [26].…”

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Using Composable NFTs for Trading and Managing Expensive Packaged Products in the Food Industry

et al. 2023

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The authenticity, traceability, and management of expensive food products require trusted, secure, and transparent end-to-end data provenance and transactions. In today's systems, transactions and data related to managing and tracing the origins and history of food products are typically stored in segregated data repositories, and controlled and managed by centralized entities, with no access or visibility to the public or key stakeholders. This increases the risk of data loss, alteration, and tampering. Further it erodes trust among all stakeholders, and weakens consumer sentiment and confidence in the expensive food market, and raises concerns about the verifiability and authenticity of expensive food products. To overcome this problem, this paper addresses the lack of traceability and authenticity problems in expensive food products utilizing blockchain technology and NFTs. NFTs are blockchain-based tokens that can be utilized to represent ownership of unique assets. We propose an NFT-based solution for expensive food products trading management, where the ownership of a food product is maintained by using digital certification, and the trading process is facilitated by smart contracts. We utilize composable NFTs for food products, where interrelated products, such as raw materials, packaged products, and Lots, are represented as top-down and bottom-up composable NFTs in the form of parent-child relationship. Composable NFTs embed extra utility within NFTs, especially when subsets of NFTs are needed. We integrate the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) decentralized storage into our solution to avoid storing large files on the blockchain while maintaining their permanency and immutability. We present various diagrams to show the system elements and the interactions among them. We illustrate algorithms along with the solution implementation details. We evaluate our solution by conducting cost and security analyses. We make our smart contracts code publicly available on GitHub.

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IPFS and Blockchain Based Reliability and Availability Improvement for Integrated Rivers’ Streamflow Data

Cited by 11 publications

References 48 publications

Blockchain Opportunities for Water Resources Management: A Comprehensive Review

Blockchain Opportunities for Water Resources Management: A Comprehensive Review

Blockchain Applications and Opportunities for Water Resources and Hydrology: A Systematic Review

Using Composable NFTs for Trading and Managing Expensive Packaged Products in the Food Industry

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