FoodSQRBlock: Digitizing food production & supply chain with blockchain
& QR code in the cloud
Abstract
Food safety is an important issue in today’s world. Traditional
agri-food production system doesn’t offer easy traceability of the
produce at any point of the supply chain, and hence, during a food-borne
outbreak, it is very difficult to sift through food production data to
track produce and origin of the outbreak. In recent years, blockchain
based food production system has resolved this challenge, however, none
of the proposed methodologies makes the food production data easily
accessible, traceable and verifiable by consumers or producers using
mobile/edge devices. In this paper, we propose FoodSQRBlock (Food Safety
Quick Response Block), a blockchain technology based framework, which
digitizes the food production information, and makes it easily
accessible, traceable and verifiable by the consumers and producers by
using QR codes. We also propose a large scale integration of
FoodSQRBlock in the cloud to show the feasibility and scalability of the
framework, and experimental evaluation to prove that.