Blockchain-Based Forest Plant Record Storage System Using Hyperledger Fabric

Abstract

In today's era, securing data related to environmental and forest department has become a crucial aspect. Integrating blockchain based technologies with the forest data management is an effective solution. Blockchain technology such as Hyperledger Fabric is a permissioned blockchain. It can be helpful in storing the forest data in a more accurate, secure and tamper-proof manner. In this work a Hyperledger Fabric based framework has been developed to store the forest data in a secure and cost effective manner. The developed system can be used in the forest department to improve security and to monitor forest activities like illegal logging. In the developed system all the records are stored in an immutable manner. Its decentralized and permissioned nature helps to prevent any unauthorized participants, which means it only allows the participants that are authorized or permitted to perform within the network. The proposed technique has been implemented on Fabric 2.5 Test-Network. Performance analysis revels that the proposed system can be implemented in real time.