Food Safety Supervision System Based on Hierarchical Multi-Domain Blockchain Network

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 7; pp. 51817 - 51826
• Main Authors: Tao, Qi, Cui, Xiaohui, Huang, Xiaofang, Leigh, Angella M., Gu, Hehe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Arbitration; Blockchain; Complexity; Complexity theory; Consortia; credit evaluation; Cryptography; Domains; Elections; Food; Food industry; Food processing industry; food safety; HMDBC network; Industry standards; Level set; Nodes; Safety; Security; Servers; smart contract; Supervision
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2911265

The traditional food supervision system has problems such as lack of industry chain and data fragmentation, which has caused the phenomenon of field regulation to be uncomprehensive in the existing regulatory system and the disposal of response lag. Combining the characteristics of blockchain such as distribution, transparent, and collegiality with the actual needs of regional autonomy, we propose the hierarchical multi-domain blockchain (HMDBC) network structure and the secondary-check mechanism, which can support timely correction and replacement of the malicious supervision nodes by regional nodes co-governance, auxiliary verification of supervision nodes, and arbitration of superior regions. In order to optimize the supervision nodes election, we proposed fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model of credibility, which can be used to objectively and fairly evaluate the comprehensive reputation of each node in that region by considering various influencing factors of node performance indicators. Furthermore, we designed the data block structure model, which can support the supervisor node replacement. Our system can perform automatic food quality detection and warning of substandard food in the entire industrial chain, with the use of smart contracts combined with the food industry standards. Finally, comparing the complexity of the traditional blockchain system with PBFT consortium, our system is more secure, with lower broadcast complexity.