agroString 2.0: A Distributed-Ledger based Smart Agriculture Framework to Ensure Transparency in Food Delivery

Abstract

Consuming healthy food is one of the major concerns in the current and coming decades, as the agricultural food supply chain is confined to a lot of wastage during retail and unprepared storage acts. The conventional and zero tracking and communication systems towards their supply chain participants are some of the many reasons for damaged food delivery to consumers. With the aid of the Internet-of-Agro-Things (IoAT), the state of the food is being gathered at different supply chain stages to monitor and keep visibility of the agricultural product stored and transmitted. However, data tampering can be an issue with these IoAT devices as they are more prone to hacking and vulnerabilities, leading to data security and reliability problems. The current paper overcomes the traditional storage platform limitations in the supply chain. In this paper, we have collected the temperature and humidity data from the IoT-Edge device and sent the statistics directly to Distributed Ledger with Masked Authenticated Message (MaM) and called it agroString 2.0. Our previous work delivered the supply chain statistics temperature and humidity data through the private Blockchain Corda. Here in agroString 2.0, with the help of the distributed ledger, we bring aspects of data security into the supply chain domain with zero cost and faster transaction times for data.