Physical Access Control Management System Based on Permissioned Blockchain
This work addresses access control management for physical places, but it is incremental as it applies existing blockchain technology to a specific domain.
The paper tackled the problem of managing physical access control by implementing a permissioned blockchain system using Hyperledger Fabric and Composer, resulting in a tamper-proof database with performance metrics and resource consumption data extracted from demo tests.
Using blockchain as a decentralized backend infrastructure has grabbed the attention of many startups entrepreneurs and developers. Blockchain records transactions permanently and protects them from undesirable tampering. It provides a reliable tamper-proof database which can be considered as a trustable source for tracking the previous system state. In this paper, we present our access control application based on Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain and Hyperledger Composer to control access to physical places. The system components and modular architecture are illustrated, and we have extracted metadata include historian transactions details arising from our demo test. Finally, the performance metrics and resources consumption are provided using Hyperledger Caliper, a benchmark framework for measuring Hyperledger blockchains performance.