Special Equipment Safety Supervision System Architecture Based on Blockchain Technology

Zhipeng Liang,Rugao Gao,Kaixin Gao,Keping Zhou

doi:10.3390/app10207344

Abstract

With the use of the traditional safety supervision system of special equipment, the job burnout of supervision participants and other supervision problems emerge endlessly, which leads to the supervision for the prevention of safety accidents being greatly weakened. In recent years, the significance of introducing new technology to improve the original supervision system for safety accident prevention has been constantly growing. In this paper, based on the current situation of China’s special equipment safety supervision, we summarize several specific requirements for improving the supervision system, namely efficient accident responsibility tracing, more transparent, more efficient data sharing, and integrating more functions. On this basis, we have designed a new system architecture, by introducing the permissioned blockchain technology, which can meet all the improvement requirements and adapt to the technical features of safety supervision work. The extensibility design of the system architecture can meet the new requirements in future work. The design idea of the system architecture can not only be used in the field of special equipment, but can also be used for reference by other fields with safety supervision requirements.

Highlights

Featured Application: A new safety supervision system architecture, by introducing the permissioned blockchain technology proposed in this paper, will be applied in special equipment safety supervision of China, which will solve many safety supervision loopholes in this field
We propose an innovative solution based on the safety supervision problems and key risk factors summarized in previous researches, which is the safety supervision system based on blockchain technology described in this paper
The specific requirements for improving the safety supervision system of special equipment proposed in Part 2 can be summarized into four parts: efficient accident responsibility tracing, more transparency, more efficient data sharing, and integrating more functions

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Introduction

Featured Application: A new safety supervision system architecture, by introducing the permissioned blockchain technology proposed in this paper, will be applied in special equipment safety supervision of China, which will solve many safety supervision loopholes in this field. In this paper, based on the current situation of China’s special equipment safety supervision, we summarize several specific requirements for improving the supervision system, namely efficient accident responsibility tracing, more transparent, more efficient data sharing, and integrating more functions. On this basis, we have designed a new system architecture, by introducing the permissioned blockchain technology, which can meet all the improvement requirements and adapt to the technical features of safety supervision work. In China, special equipment is classified into eight categories, including boilers, pressure vessels, pressure pipelines, elevators, lifting machinery, passenger ropeway, large-scale amusement facilities, and special motor vehicles, inside the field (factory) [1]. From the statistical reports of safety accidents over the years [5,6,7,8], the safety accidents caused by supervision factors account for the largest proportion

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