Agricultural Lightweight Embedded Blockchain System: A Case Study in Olive Oil

In Tunisia, one of the major problems of the olive oil industry is marketing. Several factors have an impact, such as quality, originality, lobbying, subsidies and the certification of extra virgin olive oil. The major problem remains the traceability of the production process to guarantee the origi...

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Published in:Electronics (Basel) 2022-10, Vol.11 (20), p.3394
Main Authors: Ktari, Jalel, Frikha, Tarek, Chaabane, Faten, Hamdi, Monia, Hamam, Habib
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Blockchain
Contracts
Cryptography
Customers
Farmers
Food
Food supply
Fraud
Licensing, certification and accreditation
Logistics
Marketing
Oils and fats industry
Olive oil
Product information
Sensors
Suppliers
Supply chain management
Supply chains
Technology application
Visibility
Waxes industry
Wide area networks
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Summary:In Tunisia, one of the major problems of the olive oil industry is marketing. Several factors have an impact, such as quality, originality, lobbying, subsidies and the certification of extra virgin olive oil. The major problem remains the traceability of the production process to guarantee the origin of the food at all times. This fine-grained traceability can be achieved by applying Blockchain technologies. Blockchain can be used as a solution that could bring visibility to the oil supply chain. It is proposed in order to guarantee the veracity of the product information at different stages. In this paper, a multi-Blockchain, multi-sensor traceability system using IoT will be presented. Two Blockchains that can be programmed via Smart Contract will be used. The first one is Quorum, which is a private Blockchain used by the actors of our system, and the second one is Ethereum, which is public and connects the different actors who have access to our system. This smart contract allows us to conta our system to track the olive oil manufacturing process from the farmer, through the oil mill, the transporter and the quality controller to the customer. A general approach for managing the olive oil supply chain is presented. This approach offers the possibility for the system to be configurable. It is based on smart contracts and applications that interact with the same smart contracts. The IoT is used to configure sensors. These sensors are the source of data for the supply chain process. These sensors are connected to the embedded platforms that host Quorum.
ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics11203394