Medicinal Delivery Operation using blockchain enabled Unmanned Aircraft Systems
2022-26-1138
05/26/2022
- Event
- Content
- The incredible growth of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has unlocked various services and applications in the global industry including healthcare. Aerial transportation of medicinal delivery can be an effective and alternative way to ground-based transport systems in times of emergency needs and difficult terrain. To improve the security and the trust of such aerial transportation systems, blockchain can be used as a potential platform to manage, operate and monitor. In this paper, we present a blockchain network solution based on Ethereum for the transportation of medical cargo such as blood, medicines, vaccines, etc. The smart contract solution developed in solidity language was tested using the truffle program. Ganache blockchain test network was employed to host the blockchain network and test the operation of the proposed blockchain model. The suitability of the model is validated in real-time using a UAV and all the flight data are captured and uploaded into the blockchain. The model works successfully, and the data uploaded in the blockchain is found to be in line with the developed model. The developed blockchain model provides features such as data immutability and data traceability which are very important for these type of critical applications. The data once created are sent to blocks and based on the time stamp the data are traced back.
- Citation
- M K, P., Kumar, R., Manoharan, D., R, P. et al., "Medicinal Delivery Operation using blockchain enabled Unmanned Aircraft Systems," SAE Technical Paper 2022-26-1138, 2022, .