A Consortium Blockchain-Based Agricultural Machinery Scheduling System.

Haotian Yang,Shuming Xiong,Mingzheng Zhang,Samuel Akwasi Frimpong

doi:10.3390/s20092643

Abstract

The introduction of a consortium blockchain-based agricultural machinery scheduling system will help improve the transparency and efficiency of the data flow within the sector. Currently, the traditional agricultural machinery centralized scheduling systems suffer when there is a failure of the single point control system, and it also comes with high cost managing with little transparency, not leaving out the wastage of resources. This paper proposes a consortium blockchain-based agricultural machinery scheduling system for solving the problems of single point of failure, high-cost, low transparency, and waste of resources. The consortium blockchain-based system eliminates the central server in the traditional way, optimizes the matching function and scheduling algorithm in the smart contract, and improves the scheduling efficiency. The data in the system can be traced, which increases transparency and improves the efficiency of decision-making in the process of scheduling. In addition, this system adopts a crowdsourcing scheduling mode, making full use of idle agricultural machinery in the society, which can effectively solve the problem of resource waste. Then, the proposed system implements authentication access mechanisms, and allows only authorized users into the system. It includes transactions based on digital currency and eliminates third-party platform to charge service fees. Moreover, participating organizations have the opportunity to obtain benefits and reduce transaction costs. Finally, the upper layers supervision improves the efficiency and security of consensus algorithm, allows supervisors to block users with malicious motives, and always ensures system security.

Highlights

Industrial agriculture has been more widespread recently such as exploiting specialized machinery in the field space, which greatly lightens the farmers’ labor intensity
Inspired by is based on a central platform to call scheduling algorithms, which means that the problems of two problems mentioned above, this paper proposes a new agricultural machinery scheduling system centralized platforms mentioned in Section 1 still exist
The experimental results show that the proposed agricultural machinery scheduling system can solve the problems of single point crash, high cost, and waste of resources

Summary

Introduction

Industrial agriculture has been more widespread recently such as exploiting specialized machinery in the field space, which greatly lightens the farmers’ labor intensity. Because of the application of the Internet of things (IoT) technology and agricultural intelligence, the agricultural machinery becomes a part of the Internet resources. How to obtain the most appropriate agricultural machinery (i.e., low cost and high efficiency) with the minimum cost and the shortest time has become the key research direction of agricultural machinery scheduling methods [1]. It is not practical for every farmer to buy expensive large machinery, so they may have a Sensors 2020, 20, 2643; doi:10.3390/s20092643 www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors

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