Food Processing Machine Blockchain Data Storage for Authentic Process Records
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing machines for producing liquid or semi-liquid food products face challenges in efficiently and securely storing and transmitting process information, with risks of data loss and authenticity issues due to reliance on central servers.
Innovation Solution
A machine equipped with a distributed architecture database of the blockchain type, utilizing a processing and control unit with a data communication interface connected to the internet, which includes sensors for capturing operating parameters and a user interface for generating requests to write data to the database, ensuring secure and decentralized data storage and transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a central server is used to store process data, then data storage is simplified, but the risk of data loss increases and data authenticity cannot be guaranteed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the centralized data storage system into multiple distributed nodes across the production system. Each machine (mixing machine, extrusion machine, forming machine, etc.) maintains its own processing and control unit with local data storage capabilities, segmenting the central server's storage function across multiple independent units that collectively form a decentralized storage network
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces blockchain technology as an intermediary layer between data generation and storage. The blockchain ledger acts as a mediator that records all process data immutably across the distributed network, providing cryptographic verification and consensus mechanisms that ensure data authenticity without requiring a trusted central authority
2Reliability
If periodic backups are implemented, then some data loss risk is reduced, but continuous data protection cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous data protection through real-time blockchain ledger updates. As each machine generates process data, it is immediately recorded and distributed across the network nodes continuously, eliminating the gaps inherent in periodic backup systems and ensuring uninterrupted data availability
3Reliability
If a distributed blockchain database is implemented, then data authenticity and security are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the processing and control units multi-functional by integrating both production control functions and blockchain data storage functions within the same units. Each machine's control unit serves dual purposes: controlling the production process and maintaining a copy of the blockchain ledger, eliminating the need for separate centralized server infrastructure
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AI summary
A machine for making liquid or semi-liquid food products, including: a first processing container for processing a liquid or semi-liquid base product and defining a processing chamber; a stirrer mounted inside the first processing container; a thermal system including a heat exchanger, associated with the first processing container; a processing and control unit, including a module for receiving and transmitting data, a processing module and a memory containing processing software instructions which can be carried out by the processing module, the processing and control unit defining a storage node of a distributed architecture database.