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Title	Decentralizing Online Food Delivery Services: A Blockchain And Iot Model For Smart Cities
ID_Doc	17685
Authors	Tokkozhina U.; Mataloto B.M.; Martins A.L.; Ferreira J.C.
Year	2024
Published	Mobile Networks and Applications, 29, 1
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11036-023-02119-5
Abstract	With the worldwide pandemic outbreak, the style of restaurant food consumption underwent a major shift towards online delivery services. This poses an urgent need in trust between main stakeholders of the process: requiring restaurants to correspond to the quality declared, providing high quality and safe to consume meals, and obliging delivery entities to deliver food carefully, scrupulously following the delivery conditions. In this research, we explore a novelty approach that combines IoT, Blockchain technology, and city LoRa network to create a new trusted, decentralized approach for food distribution process in the context of a Smart City. This approach allows controlling the food delivery process using sensors data to control live location, temperature, vibrations, and shakings during the transportation process. We also suggest a fresh perspective on a rating system of delivery entities, where reputation points will be provided both from the side of the restaurant and the final consumer. This will create more trust towards the delivery entity since information will be tamper-proof and immutable due to the nature of Blockchain. This novel system proposal allows rethinking the online food delivery process in the context of Smart City, using the city's LoRa LPWAN radio frequency technology and Blockchain decentralized solution.
Author Keywords	Blockchain; Food distribution process; Internet of Things (IoT); LoRa; Smart City; Supply chain

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