Project description
Securing lab analytics with blockchain technology
Making sure that laboratory production is secure can be a difficult task when suppliers are located around the world. The EU-funded B-LOCS project hopes to add another layer of protection to enhance this security, by using software to monitor analyses at laboratories in real time and creating notations on a blockchain. Any attempt to alter raw data anomalies or errors would be detected, since all file creation is recorded immutably on a blockchain by means of a smart contract. The B-LOCS program can also be set up to give off real-time alarms at any deviations.
Objective
B-LOCS aims at monitoring the analyses performed on the laboratory software and at detecting whether the raw data have been altered by anomalies resulting from protocol errors or actions that do not comply with the GMP rules.
B-LOCS records in real time the events that occur on the files from the lab software and sends them to a smart contract on a blockchain. In order to properly report the status of the analysis, the business logic of each software (for file creation or invalid action events - e.g. file deletion) is recorded immutably in a Smart-Contract. Any deviation is reported and triggers real time configurable alarms.
The strength of this approach lies in the trust provided by the Smart-Contract running on the blockchain: it contains the business logic that decides whether the latest event impacts the validity of a laboratory analysis performed. There is no way to bypass this GMP-relevant business logic; no way to override the B-LOCS and the history of the blockchain.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF - HORIZON EIC Accelerator Blended Finance
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01
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67657 Kaiserslautern
Germany
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