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Integration Adapter Architecture for Food Traceability Blockchain
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This study addresses the challenge faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in integrating their existing systems with permissioned blockchains for food traceability, a process often hindered by limited technical resources, high costs, and system complexity. To overcome these barriers, this work proposes a lightweight, modular adapter architecture comprising five core components: data extraction (supporting both API calls and file uploads), standardized data transformation, an asynchronous message middleware, blockchain transaction submission, and runtime monitoring. This design enables seamless interoperability between enterprise systems and blockchain networks while significantly lowering the adoption barrier. The architecture demonstrates robustness under poor connectivity and high load conditions. Its effectiveness is validated through a real-world pilot involving three participants in a fruit supply chain, confirming its capability for unobtrusive integration and reliable support of on-chain–off-chain interoperability.
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Enterprise adoption of permissioned blockchains remains limited due to the complexity and cost of integrating legacy systems. We present a modular adapter architecture that bridges enterprise applications with blockchain networks, designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises with limited technical resources. The architecture provides five key modules: (1) configurable data extractors supporting diverse interfaces such as APIs and file uploads, (2) data transformers that can convert to standard formats, (3) messaging middleware to ensure operations can tolerate lack of connectivity and traffic spikes, (4) blockchain loader to commit transactions to the blockchain, and (5) status visibility to collect and expose runtime metrics that support operational transparency. We validated the adapters through a pilot deployment in a real-world fruit supply chain, involving three distinct enterprises. The pilot achieved blockchain integration with minimal workflow disruption, demonstrating the usefulness of these adapters for practical interoperability of existing systems with the blockchain.
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blockchain integration
legacy systems
enterprise adoption
permissioned blockchain
interoperability
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adapter architecture
blockchain integration
enterprise interoperability
permissioned blockchain
modular middleware
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