Using RFID to identify smart products on a blockchain enabled production network

Sándor Csikós; György Czifra; József Sárosi

doi:10.14232/analecta.2021.1.1-7

Authors

Sándor Csikós University of Szeged Faculty of Engineering, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8993-9521
György Czifra University of Óbuda Doctoral School of Security Science, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4758-0773
József Sárosi University of Szeged, Faculty of Engineering, Hungary http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6303-5011

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14232/analecta.2021.1.1-7

Keywords:

RFID, Blockchain, smart factory, smart product, data security

Abstract

Industry 4.0 requires the cooperation of several technologies. The intersections of these technologies present us with new challenges. One of these challenges is identification, since we have to identify all the items that are on the network that do work and those that are worked upon. If we fail to identify one of these items the network is presented with an unidentified potentially malicious device or a misidentified product which can cause production to halt. Blockchains or otherwise known as Distributed Ledger Technology, DLT for short is a technology that builds upon the current bookkeeping paradigm and expands it in a decentralized direction. This however can be used in more than just banking since it is essentially a distributed database that has memory of past events not just the current state. By using a blockchain based distributed database to hold processing details and using RFID-s as keys to certain entries in the database it is possible to build a tamper proof production system that can handle the challenges of industry 4.0. It may also be possible to use blockchain technology as a form of digital paper trail that can be used to validate messages sent to the nodes of the system.

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