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Blockchain-IoT Based Blood Supply Chain Management System

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India is yet to meet 100% blood unit requirements from blood donations across the country. On top of that there is a huge wastage of blood due to lack of a proper monitoring system. There are also many instances of loss of lives, infection of HIV and other severe diseases due to transfusion of unfit blood. So in this work we have designed a Blockchain based Blood Supply Chain Management System to address these critical issues associated with blood donation. The system supports all stakeholders involved with the traditional blood donation process namely Donor, Inspection Center, Hospitals, Blood Banks and Blood Donation Registry. In addition to the inherent advantages of Blockchain like immutability, availability, transparency, security, auditability, the system is designed to provide authentication, attribute based access control and authorisation, multi party endorsements, IoT based automated data insertion directly into the ledger and source tracking of blood. The main aim of the proposed system is to bring the much needed transparency and accountability into the blood donation framework, and with the features mentioned the system has the capability to radically change the blood donation scenario in India.

The proposed system is implemented using Hyperledger Fabric, a private Blockchain which allows only restricted access to the system by the stakeholders. Every event is recorded as a transaction in the ledger by the miners. Smart contracts are used to enforce business logic and necessary constraints in the system. We did comparative analysis of the system against other similar available systems and also evaluated the performance based on throughput and latency. Results showed that the system performance is up to the mark.

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    Bikramjit Choudhury, Nabajyoti Dewri, Prangana Das & Amitava Nag

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India

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Choudhury, B., Dewri, N., Das, P., Nag, A. (2022). Blockchain-IoT Based Blood Supply Chain Management System. In: Giri, D., Mandal, J.K., Sakurai, K., De, D. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Network Security and Blockchain Technology. ICNSBT 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 481. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3182-6_29

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