IoT-Enabled Shipping Container with Environmental Monitoring and Location Tracking

Alfalasi, A.; Alfalasi, M.; Alharmoudi, M.; Alzaabi, Mohammed; Alzyeodi, A.; Ahmad, Raja Wasim

doi:10.1109/ccnc46108.2020.9045495

Cited by 44 publications

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“…It is worth noting that blockchain is the preferred platform to record and store alerts about serious notifications and violations that may be triggered by blockchain-enabled IoT devices to trace and track shipment, products, or equipment during the supply chain phases [34], [35]. In today's Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), the accuracy of the reported data to the blockchain are as accurate as the devices reporting them.…”

Section: Open Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain-Based Solution for the Traceability of Spare Parts in Manufacturing

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Spare parts are essential assets to maintain productivity and operations. A spare part is used for the repair or replacement of failed units. Tracing and tracking of spare parts ownership can help to ensure reliable outcomes in terms of manufacturing operations and service delivery. However, today's spare part inventory systems fall short of providing reliable tracing and tracking of spare parts ownership which poses serious threats to their authenticity. Also, current approaches and systems leveraged for spare part inventory management are vulnerable to the single point of failures. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based smart contract to trace and track the spare parts ownership details from the original equipment manufacturer to the supplier and end-users. We exploit blockchain features to build a secure and trusted spare part inventory system that is tamper-proof, traceable, trackable, accessible immutable, resilient, and reliable. The proposed system integrates decentralized storage of interplanetary file systems (IPFS) to store and share spare parts data. We present algorithms along with their full implementation details. We perform testing and validation of the smart contract. Furthermore, we provide security and cost analysis, and show how the proposed system ensures reliable tracing and tracking of spare parts ownership. We make the smart contract source code publicly available on Github.

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Section: Open Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain-Based Solution for the Traceability of Spare Parts in Manufacturing

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“…Also, smart contracts can use provenance data to identify the substandard and falsified vaccines manufactured and shipped through unauthorized manufacturers. For supply chain logistics services, smart contracts can be configured to monitor the state of the container for temperature, humidity, pressure, and other indices to protect the COVID-19 vaccine during its shipment [31,37]. The smart contracts can automatically notify the relevant authorities when the preassigned conditions for the shipment are violated.…”

Section: B Logistics Monitoring Of Vaccinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…WIShelter is based on WiseID application which is Wisekey's digital identity platform for providing security services to its users. Wisekey has employed blockchain technology, IoT [37], and AI-based tools to develop large scale digital identity ecosystems. WIShelter is a smartphonebased application that stores health data of individuals on the distributed ledger in a reliable and trusted manner.…”

Section: Data Privacy Assurance Using Wishelter Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain and COVID-19 Pandemic: Applications and Challenges

Ahmad¹,

Salah²,

Jayaraman³

et al. 2023

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The year 2020 has witnessed the emergence of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that has rapidly spread and adversely affected the global economy, health, and human lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the limitations of existing healthcare systems regarding its inadequacy to timely and efficiently handle public health emergencies. A large portion of today's healthcare systems are centralized and fall short in providing necessary information security and privacy, data immutability, transparency, and traceability features to detect frauds related to COVID-19 vaccination certification, anti-body testing, and medical supplies. Blockchain technology can assist to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by assuring safe and reliable medical supplies, accurate identification of virus hot spots, and establishing data provenance to verify the genuine personal protective equipment that is decentralized, trustworthy, traceable, and transparent. In this paper, we discuss the potential blockchain applications for the COVID-19 pandemic. We present the high-level design of three blockchain-based systems to enable the governments and medical professionals to efficiently handle health emergencies caused by COVID-19. We discuss the important ongoing blockchain-based research projects to demonstrate the adoption of blockchain technology for the COVID-19. Finally, we identify and discuss future research challenges along with their key causes and guidelines.

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“…The technological advancements in the Internet of things (IoT) can assist the telehealth sector to monitor a patient's health remotely through precise biomedical sensors [54] , [55] , [56] , [57] , [58] . The biomedical sensors can continuously monitor and store health data on a high-performance edge server that helps to analyze the health condition of a patient.…”

Section: Blockchain Opportunities In Telehealth and Telemedicinementioning

confidence: 99%