IT solutions of EgerFood food safety tracking system

Abstract

In this article we introduce the EgerFood food-safety tracing system, which has been developed in the Regional Knowledge Center at the Eszterházy Károly College. We have already reported on the applied methodologies on some conferences. This article gives a complete overview on the informatics system, on its features, and on our results. Our aim is that similar tracing system should be able to use this article as an example. The goal of the EgerFood system is to create a customer centric system, which deliver food-safety information in a cost effective and safe way to the customers, the food-producers, and the authorities. The developed information system uses at least a 2-tier architecture already at the site of the food-producers, which is connected to the main data warehouse server using VPN connection. We show how moves the data from its source to the buffer-servers, from that to the communication server and finally to the database server, and how it is encrypted on this way. We also approve the safety of data search, not only the safety of the data upload.