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Implementation of Quality Management System for Wild-Simulated Ginseng Using Blockchain

  • Sung, Youngjun (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Won, Yoojae (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2021.09.10
  • Accepted : 2021.12.19
  • Published : 2022.04.30
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Abstract

A special government agency has been charged with implementing quality management to guarantee the quality of wild-simulated ginseng. However, these processes are carried out by use of documents, and this has resulted in information omission and high document management costs. To solve this problem, this study analyzed the existing quality management process by using a smart contract for the existing offline form and proposed a new quality management system for storing and managing all log data in the blockchain. This system reduced documentation management costs about quality management and recorded information in the previous step through the quality management steps, thus forming a step-by-step record chain. Experiments were conducted by implementing this system, which improved data integrity and reliability. Additionally, sensitive information, such as personal information, was included in the system by use of the off-chain technology.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by an Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2019-0-01343, Training Key Talents in Industrial Convergence Security). This study was carried out with the support of the R&D Program for Forest Science Technology (Project No. 2020184C10-2122-AA02) under the Korea Forest Service (Korea Forestry Promotion Institute).

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