Recording Provenance of Food Delivery Using IoT, Semantics and Business Blockchain Networks

Abstract

In recent years, the food delivery sector has experienced an influx of disruptive models triggered by advances in sensing, robotics and data science. Inexpensive IoT technologies when combined with a secure and tamperproof data management infrastructure offer a potential solution to issues such as safety of perishable products in transit and monitoring of delivery contractors. In this paper we present a prototype architecture utilising IoT devices for monitoring food deliveries, semantic services for managing and reasoning about provenance compliance records, and private blockchain networks for persistent and secure storage.