RFID with Multi-Sensing&Blockchain Empowered Digitalization of Chemical Inventory Management

Abstract

The conventional labor-intensive chemical inventory management methods face great challenges due to the rapid increase and diverse demands of front-line researchers, lab managers, principal investigators, and authority-level central departments. This paper addresses the practical issues of chemical management and provides a new interdisciplinary and user-friendly innovative chemical inventory management system. Empowered by RFID, multi-sensing, and blockchain technologies, the digitalization of the chemicals, sensitive and dangerous substances are constructed. According to the field tests via the deployed prototype and evaluation elaborated in this paper, stakeholders can drastically reduce the amount of low-value, miscellaneous lab work, while improving the efficiencies of research activities, administration, management, and safety control in multiple specialized domains.