IOT based provenance platform for vegetables supplied to Hong Kong

Abstract

Food security is important in ensuring people's health and safety. It has close relationship with the coordinated development of national economy and society, and has a very important strategic significance. Advanced technologies in Internet of Things are used in this platform. RFID Electronic vehicle cards and RFID tags are used to mark vehicles and vegetables supplied to Hong Kong. All provenance information about the supply chain of vegetables from growing, harvesting, government supervision, testing, transportation, customs clearance, warehousing, repackaging, internal testing, to the supermarket retail is recorded and can be used to ensure the security of foods supplied to Hong Kong. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.