Intuitive Development to Examine Collaborative IoT Supply Chain System Underlying Privacy and Security Levels and Perspective Powering through Proactive Blockchain

Abstract

<jats:p>Undoubtedly, the supply chain management (SCM) system is an important part of many organizations worldwide; over time, the technologies used to manage a supply chain ecosystem have, therefore, a great impact on businesses’ effectiveness. Among others, numerous developments have been made that targeted to have robust supply chain systems to efficiently manage the growing demands of various supplies, considering the underlying requirements and main challenges such as scalability, specifically privacy and security, of various business networks. Internet of things (IoT) comes with a solution to manage a complex, scalable supply chain system, but to provide and attain enough security during information exchange, along with keeping the privacy of its users, is the great inherent challenge of IoT. To fulfill these limitations, this study designs and models a scaled IoT-based supply chain (IoT-SC) system, comprising several operations and participants, and deploys mechanisms to leverage the security, mainly confidentially, integrity, authentication (CIA), and a digital signature scheme to leverage potentially secured non-repudiation security service for the worst-case scenario, and to leverage privacy to keep users sensitive personal and location information protected against adversarial entities to the IoT-SC system. Indeed, a scaled IoT-SC system certainly opens new challenges to manage privacy and security while communicating. Therefore, in the IoT-SC system, each transaction writes from edge computing nodes to the IoT-SC controller is thoroughly examined to ensure the proposed solutions in bi-directional communication, and their robustness against adversarial behaviors. Future research works, employing blockchain and its integrations, are detailed as paces to accelerate the privacy and security of the IoT-SC system, for example, migrating IoT-centric computing to an immutable, decentralized platform.</jats:p>

Sustainability of Food Placement in Retailing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…That is, differences in the impacts of indicators on sustainability are different among major FSC participants in the WB region during the COVID-19 pandemic. The finding confirms the results of previous research on the significance of differences between business activities within the FSC [33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

“…The conducted research shows a different influence of the given indicators on the food placement among FSC participants. This is also an expected result, given recent research [33][34][35][36][37][38]41] that highlights the strong correlation of differences in FSC business sectors with placement efficiency. In this context, energy consumption comes to the fore in production, which has no statistically significant impact in retail, but rather the changing needs of consumers.…”

Application and Impact of New Technologies in the Supply Chain Management During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review

“…They identified that the higher investment cost, lack of trained workers in implementing and operating the technologies, especially IoT, lack of modern infrastructure to support industry 4.0 are the critical barriers in incorporating these technologies in supply chains. Similarly, the previous studies also reported the same results regarding the acceptance and implementation of emerging technologies in supply chains Majeed and Rupasinghe, 2017;Oláh et al, 2020;Rehman et al, 2020;Shahzad et al, 2020). Yadav et al (2020) also reported the lack of government regulations and lack of trust among the agro-stakeholders as the critical barriers to implementing blockchain technology.…”

Current Research Trends in IoT Security: A Systematic Mapping Study

“…is cluster is thus related to digital signcryption. Digital signature encryption has been investigated on algorithms, such as the elliptic curve digitalsignature algorithm, digital-signature mobile applications, and digital-signature systems, to achieve document integrity and provide nonrepudiation security services in a distributed computing environment [103][104][105][106][107]. It is also important to satisfy reliability and confidentiality requirements of crowdsourced data [108,109].…”

“…Topic 10 is related to the adoption of blockchain in smart-IoT applications, such as smart contracts, smart inventory management, smart e-commerce, and smart shopping systems [140,155,[267][268][269][270][271][272][273][274][275][276][277][278][279].…”