Chain of Trust: Integrating IoT and Blockchain to Certify Wild Mushroom Growth Quality

This paper presents the preliminary results of the study developed within the scope of the “Safe2Taste” project presenting the main concept of hardware and software architectures. The project aims to build a monitoring system supported by IoT technologies and covered by a security layer through interaction with a blockchain network to be applied in an edible mushroom production system. The hardware and software components were validated in the laboratory and taken to domestic production for the concept phase. the impacts caused by the inconsistent production management are in the analysis phase as the data collection is not finalized. At this stage, the implementation of low-cost IoT nodes is intended for collecting and monitoring parameters, these parameters are sent via the MQTT protocol to the cloud, starting the blockchain mining process and storing the mining result in an immutable database. The information from monitoring, as well as the keys generated in blockchain mining, will be presented in an intuitive way through a user interface built using the NODE-red framework.