Blockchain-enabled smart contracts for secure and transparent timber traceability

IF 10.4 1区计算机科学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Journal of Industrial Information Integration Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI:10.1016/j.jii.2025.100934

Robertas Damaševičius, Rytis Maskeliūnas

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Abstract

This study explores the application of blockchain-based smart contracts to improve traceability, transparency, and consumer trust in the timber industry. It focuses on challenges such as illegal logging and supply chain opacity by proposing a blockchain-enabled framework to manage key processes: timber harvest registration, quality assessment and certification, ownership transfer and consumer verification. The research demonstrates how smart contracts can automate and secure these operations, ensuring data integrity and streamlining supply chain interactions. A simulated blockchain environment was used to evaluate system performance. The results showed that the average transaction throughput reached 320 transactions per second, while the energy consumption per transaction decreased from 400 J to 200 J as the volume increased. Gas fees rose linearly with the complexity of the contract, highlighting the importance of operational optimization for efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The novelty of the study lies in its holistic integration of blockchain and smart contracts into timber supply chain workflows. It emphasizes not only technical implementation, but also scalability, energy efficiency, and the need for auditable, privacy-preserving systems. The proposed model offers practical information for improving legality, sustainability and accountability in the global timber trade.

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支持区块链的智能合约，实现安全和透明的木材可追溯性

本研究探讨了基于区块链的智能合约的应用，以提高木材行业的可追溯性、透明度和消费者信任。它通过提出一个支持区块链的框架来管理关键流程，重点关注非法采伐和供应链不透明等挑战：木材采伐登记、质量评估和认证、所有权转移和消费者验证。该研究展示了智能合约如何自动化和保护这些操作，确保数据完整性并简化供应链交互。模拟区块链环境对系统性能进行了评估。结果表明，随着业务量的增加，平均事务吞吐量达到每秒320个事务，而每笔事务的能耗从400j下降到200j。天然气费用随着合同的复杂性呈线性增长，这凸显了运营优化对效率和成本效益的重要性。该研究的新颖之处在于它将区块链和智能合约全面整合到木材供应链工作流程中。它不仅强调技术实现，还强调可伸缩性、能源效率以及对可审计、隐私保护系统的需求。拟议的模式为提高全球木材贸易的合法性、可持续性和问责制提供了实用信息。

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来源期刊

Journal of Industrial Information Integration Decision Sciences-Information Systems and Management

CiteScore

22.30

自引率

13.40%

发文量

100

期刊介绍： The Journal of Industrial Information Integration focuses on the industry's transition towards industrial integration and informatization, covering not only hardware and software but also information integration. It serves as a platform for promoting advances in industrial information integration, addressing challenges, issues, and solutions in an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. The Journal of Industrial Information Integration welcomes papers on foundational, technical, and practical aspects of industrial information integration, emphasizing the complex and cross-disciplinary topics that arise in industrial integration. Techniques from mathematical science, computer science, computer engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, manufacturing engineering, and engineering management are crucial in this context.