Blockchain-based model for disaster relief supply chain management

Disaster relief management can be seen as a supply chain problem where the system should ensure effective design, deployment, and process management for dealing with present and future events. This also should be able to manage, coordinate, and interact with other processes of the same or different supply chain models. Disasters happen in a dynamic environment. There are numerous bottlenecks in disbursing adequate reliefs such as poor infrastructure or uncertainty about the volume of relief measures required. The disaster response model should be able to collaborate, coordinate, and show equality in distributing the relief. There is a need for a reliable and efficient system for facilitating the overall process of relief distribution from interactions to delivery. Blockchain technologies are being adopted in recent times as they can enable transparency. Security and real-time data transfer through intelligent contracts. The proposed chapter analyzes the use of blockchain technology on resilience in disaster management. A model combining IoT technology and an intelligent supply network for deploying a network-aided simulation was proposed. The results reveal that the proposed model performs well in disaster relief supply networks through intelligent contracts and collaborations. The experiments prove that the proposed methods are efficient in terms of the time taken to process a transaction in disaster supply when compared with other methods.