NiCuSBlockIoT: Sensor-based Cargo Assets Management and Traceability Blockchain Support for Nigerian Custom Services

As competitive market and globalization continue to ripple a range of issues across the asset chain (i.e. safety, quality, tracing, and overall management efficiency). Pandemics are bound to occur without warning and has revealed the unpreparedness of many nations. Thus, the Nigerian Government aiming to shore up revenue/monetization via customs exercise duties to augment the nosedive in revenue of the oil sector – must formulate policies and adapt technology to harness its inherent benefits therein. Study advances a sensor-based blockchain NiCuSBlockIoT, which will provision a decision-support scheme for cargo goods traceability and asset movement on a value-chain by first ensuring that accurate records of cargo goods are registered, tagged and reported using the sensor-based units. These are then broadcasted on to the NiCuSBlockIoT as record and/or blocks via a P2P chain on the network as a decentralized framework executed on a distributed hyper-ledger fabric via smart-contract transaction logic. Result show model eliminate fraud that often accompanies a centralized scheme via its sensor-layered model that reports all such errors as data on NiCuSBlockIoT supply value chain. Keywords: BlockChain, Food supply chain, Nigerian Customs Service, NISBlockIoT framework CISDI Journal Reference Format Obasuyi, D.A., Yoro, R.E., Okpor, M.D., Ifioki, A.., Brizimor, S.., Ojugo, A.A., Odiakaose, C.C., Emordi, F.U., Ako, R.E., Geteloma, V.C., Abere, R.A., Atuduhor, R.R. & Akiakeme, E. (2024): NiCuSBlockIoT: Sensor-based Cargo Assets Management and Traceability Blockchain Support for Nigerian Custom Services. Computing, Information Systems, Development Informatics & Allied Research Journal. Vol 15 No 2, Pp 45-64. dx.doi.org/10.22624/AIMS/CISDI/V15N2P4. Available online at www.isteams.net/cisdijournal