Physical Access Control Management System Based on Permissioned Blockchain

TL;DR

This paper presents a blockchain-based physical access control system utilizing Hyperledger Fabric, demonstrating its architecture, transaction metadata, and performance metrics to ensure secure and tamper-proof access management.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel blockchain-based approach for physical access control using Hyperledger Fabric and Composer, including system architecture and performance evaluation.

Findings

System architecture and modular design are detailed.

Transaction metadata and historian details are extracted.

Performance metrics are measured using Hyperledger Caliper.

Abstract

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.