Blockchain: The Evolutionary Next Step for ICT E-Agriculture

Lin, Yu‐Pin; Petway, Joy R.; Anthony, Johnathen; Mukhtar, Hussnain; Liao, Shih-Wei; Chou, Cheng-Fu; Ho, Yi-Fong

doi:10.3390/environments4030050

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“…the remote control of farm conditions, remote monitoring of farm equipment through smartphone applications, etc.) can be further implemented within a blockchain infrastructure to enable new farm systems and e‐agriculture schemes . In addition, the blockchain introduction, implemented with agricultural and environmental monitoring data, stored in a distributed cloud, permits to engineer secure and trust sustainable agricultural development with transparent data collection making them immutable and decentralized for future management.…”

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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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“…Some BC‐based achievements in the energy sector include LO3 Energy and the Brooklyn Microgrids project, Electron, PowerLedger, etc. Agriculture : Agricultural and environmental monitoring data stored in a distributed cloud allows users to engineer trust and secure sustainable agricultural development with transparent data with the help of BC technology. BC‐based agricultural systems become immutable and decentralized record management systems . In the agricultural sector, BC has the potential to improve warehouse management and supply chains management effectively.…”

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Blockchain‐based security aspects in heterogeneous Internet‐of‐Things networks: A survey

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Saha

2019

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Blockchain is a key technology that enables cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc. In recent years, researchers have ventured into tapping the potential of blockchain‐based ecosystems beyond cryptocurrencies. This paper explores the convergence of blockchain with the Internet of things (IoT) and its improved versions like software‐defined network (SDN)–based IoT, which are upcoming technologies in the area. This paper gives a brief description of the IoT and its challenges, especially the security aspects. It also discusses how blockchain concept can further resolve these challenges on the SDN‐based IoT platform. This paper first discussed the evolution of conventional IoT to the SDN‐based IoT, which can resolve many drawbacks of a conventional IoT system. Also, it is focused on how the concept of blockchain can be converged with SDN‐based IoT system to further improve its security aspects. Although the convergence of these different technologies has resulted into many advantages, many associated challenges still remain. This paper highlighted these challenges and opportunities to discover many other research issues that need to be resolved. The details of current literature on the same issue has also been highlighted in this paper.

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“…The blockchain consists in a linear sequence of small encrypted datasets called ‘blocks’, which contain timestamped batches of transactions [14]. As reported by Lin et al [15], each of these blocks contains a reference to its precedent block and an answer to a complex mathematical puzzle, which serves to validate the transactions it contains as a decentralized ledger system of transaction records, which is distributed across a network of computers or databases.…”

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A Blockchain Implementation Prototype for the Electronic Open Source Traceability of Wood along the Whole Supply Chain

Figorilli

Antonucci

Costa

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This is the first work to introduce the use of blockchain technology for the electronic traceability of wood from standing tree to final user. Infotracing integrates the information related to the product quality with those related to the traceability [physical and digital documents (Radio Frequency IDentification—RFID—architecture)] within an online information system whose steps (transactions) can be made safe to evidence of alteration through the blockchain. This is a decentralized and distributed ledger that keeps records of digital transactions in such a way that makes them accessible and visible to multiple participants in a network while keeping them secure without the need of a centralized certification organism. This work implements a blockchain architecture within the wood chain electronic traceability. The infotracing system is based on RFID sensors and open source technology. The entire forest wood supply chain was simulated from standing trees to the final product passing through tree cutting and sawmill process. Different kinds of Internet of Things (IoT) open source devices and tags were used, and a specific app aiming the forest operations was engineered to collect and store in a centralized database information (e.g., species, date, position, dendrometric and commercial information).

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Blockchain: The Evolutionary Next Step for ICT E-Agriculture

Cited by 242 publications

References 35 publications

A review on blockchain applications in the agri‐food sector

A review on blockchain applications in the agri‐food sector

Blockchain‐based security aspects in heterogeneous Internet‐of‐Things networks: A survey

A Blockchain Implementation Prototype for the Electronic Open Source Traceability of Wood along the Whole Supply Chain

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