Trace and Track: Enhanced Pharma Supply Chain Infrastructure to Prevent Fraud

Archa; Bithin Alangot; Krishnashree Achuthan

Ubiquitous Communications and Network Computing. First International Conference, UBICNET 2017, Bangalore, India, August 3-5, 2017, Proceedings

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Trace and Track: Enhanced Pharma Supply Chain Infrastructure to Prevent Fraud

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-73423-1_17,
    author={Archa and Bithin Alangot and Krishnashree Achuthan},
    title={Trace and Track: Enhanced Pharma Supply Chain Infrastructure to Prevent Fraud},
    proceedings={Ubiquitous Communications and Network Computing. First International Conference, UBICNET 2017, Bangalore, India, August 3-5, 2017, Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={UBICNET},
    year={2018},
    month={1},
    keywords={Supply chain Blockchain IoT},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-73423-1_17}
}

Archa
Bithin Alangot
Krishnashree Achuthan
Year: 2018
Trace and Track: Enhanced Pharma Supply Chain Infrastructure to Prevent Fraud
UBICNET
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73423-1_17

Archa¹^,*, Bithin Alangot¹^,*, Krishnashree Achuthan¹^,*

1: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita University

*Contact email: archa91@gmail.com, bithina@am.amrita.edu, krishna@amrita.edu

Abstract

The menace of counterfeit drugs has prompted the regulatory authorities to mandate trace and track systems to verify the provenance of drugs as it travels across the supply chain. Here, we propose a highly scalable and enhanced trace and track system for pharma supply chain. Our novel idea of using an IoT framework known as GDP (Global Data Plane) integrated with blockchain helps in communication and management of data between untrusted parties. The blockchain maintains an immutable record of drugs each party holds and transactions the parties make amongst themselves. This makes it hard to introduce counterfeit drugs into the supply chain.

Keywords: Supply chain Blockchain IoT

Published: 2018-01-19
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73423-1_17