sFarm: A Distributed Ledger Based Remote Crop Monitoring System for Smart Farming

Bapatla, Anand K.; Mohanty, Saraju P.; Kougianos, Elias

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-96466-5_2

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“…Using blockchain technology, all sensor measurements can be recorded on a tamperresistant, decentralized ledger, enabling secure, transparent, and reliable record-keeping [112]. The collected data can then be analyzed using AI-based technologies such as machine learning algorithms, which can efficiently process and analyze the data to extract valuable insights, patterns, and trends.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The use of AI in Agriculture 5.0 can lead to innovative applications such as autonomous farm robots and farming systems. Furthermore, this rather new field of research offers new possibilities for creating more robust smart agricultural applications, ranging from weather or crop yield prediction and forecasting [117,118] to video monitoring and remote crop diagnostics [112], thus fulfilling the basic requirements of Agriculture 5.0.…”

Section: More Accurate and Reliable Ai-based Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Impact of 6G-IoT Technologies on the Development of Agriculture 5.0: A Review

Polymeni,

Plastras,

Skoutas

et al. 2023

Electronics

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Throughout human history, agriculture has undergone a series of progressive transformations based on ever-evolving technologies in an effort to increase productivity and profitability. Over the years, farming methods have evolved significantly, progressing from Agriculture 1.0, which relied on primitive tools, to Agriculture 2.0, which incorporated machinery and advanced farming practices, and subsequently to Agriculture 3.0, which emphasized mechanization and employed intelligent machinery and technology to enhance productivity levels. To further automate and increase agricultural productivity while minimizing agricultural inputs and pollutants, a new approach to agricultural management based on the concepts of the fourth industrial revolution is being embraced gradually. This approach is referred to as “Agriculture 4.0” and is mainly implemented through the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, enabling the remote control of sensors and actuators and the efficient collection and transfer of data. In addition, fueled by technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, quantum sensing, and four-dimensional communication, a new form of smart agriculture, called “Agriculture 5.0,” is now emerging. Agriculture 5.0 can exploit the growing 5G network infrastructure as a basis. However, only 6G-IoT networks will be able to offer the technological advances that will allow the full expansion of Agriculture 5.0, as can be inferred from the relevant scientific literature and research. In this article, we first introduce the scope of Agriculture 5.0 as well as the key features and technologies that will be leveraged in the much-anticipated 6G-IoT communication systems. We then highlight the importance and influence of these developing technologies in the further advancement of smart agriculture and conclude with a discussion of future challenges and opportunities.

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Section: More Accurate and Reliable Ai-based Applicationsmentioning

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The Impact of 6G-IoT Technologies on the Development of Agriculture 5.0: A Review

Polymeni,

Plastras,

Skoutas

et al. 2023

Electronics

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“…DLT is one of the latest technologies which has revolutionized financial systems by removing middlemen like banks and other financial institutions to implement fully decentralized peer-to-peer banking systems [14]. Advantages of DLT technologies arise in many different fields, including smart cities [15,16], smart healthcare [17,18,19], smart farming [20,21] and also in building efficient and transparent supply chains [22]. These transparent supply chains can benefit not only the manufacturers with acquiring raw materials and with the smooth production of goods and delivery but also customers will have confidence in product consumption as counterfeit detection and avoiding can be managed easily.…”

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PharmaChain: A Blockchain to Ensure Counterfeit Free Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Bapatla¹,

Mohanty²,

Kougianos³

2022

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Access to essential medication is a primary right of every individual in all developed, developing and underdeveloped countries. This can be fulfilled by pharmaceutical supply chains (PSC) in place which will eliminate the boundaries between different organizations and will equip them to work collectively to make medicines reach even the remote corners of the globe. Due to multiple entities, which are geographically widespread, being involved and very complex goods and economic flows, PSC is very difficult to audit and resolve any issues involved. This has given rise to many issues, including increased threats of counterfeiting, inaccurate information propagation throughout the network because of data fragmentation, lack of customer confidence and delays in distribution of medication to the place in need. Hence, there is a strong need for robust PSC which is transparent to all parties involved and in which the whole journey of medicine from manufacturer to consumer can be tracked and traced easily. This will not only build safety for the consumers, but will also help manufacturers to build confidence among consumers and increase sales. In this article, a novel Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) based transparent supply chain architecture is proposed and a proof-of-concept is implemented. Efficiency and scalability of the proposed architecture is evaluated and compared with existing solutions.

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“…Advancements of technologies like the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT), communication protocols, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) have helped in redefining the PSC and have introduced more efficient mechanisms. DLT is one of the recent technological innovations which have started redefining traditional financial processes [15] and have shown promising impact on other fields like smart cities [16,17], smart healthcare [18][19][20], smart farming [21,22], IoT data security and privacy [23], and also in building efficient and transparent supply chains [24]. Transparent supply chains can help in avoiding the above discussed issues with the PSC, which is the scope of this paper.…”

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PharmaChain: A blockchain to ensure counterfeit‐free pharmaceutical supply chain

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Globalisation has facilitated different industries to eliminate geographical boundaries and equipped organisations to work collectively to produce goods. Pharmaceuticals is one such industry which has majorly benefited from globalisation to reduce costs and increase profitability at different aspects of research, development, manufacturing of drugs and finally distribution of drugs. Globalisation not only reduces costs and increases profits for the industry, it also makes essential medication available to all individuals even at remote areas of undeveloped, developing and developed countries. As the number of entities or participants grew in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain (PSC), the complexity and abstractness of the drug delivery from manufacturer to consumer has increased, which raised new concerns like counterfeit medication, incorrect, incomplete or no information about the drug reaching the consumer thus undermining customer confidence and most importantly distribution delays which can cause serious impact on the life of the consumer as well as business growth. Considering all these challenges, there is a dire need for a robust PSC which can eliminate blind parties and provide a transparent chain. A transparent PSC will eliminate data fragmentation between different participating entities by creating a trail of secure, single source of truth for the entire life cycle of a medicine, thereby eliminating the introduction of counterfeits and ensuring the consumer safety. This article proposes a novel Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) based transparent supply chain for PSC and proof‐of‐concept is implemented to analyse the scalability and efficiency of the proposed architecture. Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is one of the technologies which can provide such transparent PSC and Smart Contracts (SC) are the most commonly used component in such systems to implement business logic and access control mechanisms. The proposed PharmaChain model investigates all the interactions between the main entities in PSC and also addresses smart contract issues such as re‐entrance, randomness and lacking trustworthy data feed. Results are compared with other proposed solutions for PSC based on DLT.

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sFarm: A Distributed Ledger Based Remote Crop Monitoring System for Smart Farming

Cited by 14 publications

References 25 publications

The Impact of 6G-IoT Technologies on the Development of Agriculture 5.0: A Review

The Impact of 6G-IoT Technologies on the Development of Agriculture 5.0: A Review

PharmaChain: A Blockchain to Ensure Counterfeit Free Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

PharmaChain: A blockchain to ensure counterfeit‐free pharmaceutical supply chain

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