The Cost-Effective Traceability System in the Federated Clouds

The traceability system has become relatively important especially in food and agriculture industries because it increases the quality of the products; however, the implementation of traceability system based on the one public cloud experiences the ineffective-cost operation cost. In this research, we therefore propose the conceptual framework for cost-effective traceability system based on federated clouds. The basic structure of traceability system comprises the centralized and internal traceability systems which conform to EPCglobal Network including, Electronic Product Code Discovery Service (EPCDS) and Electronic Product Code Information Service (EPCIS). The Tricircle OpenStack API is adopted to control and manage the traceability systems which are deployed in the different public cloud providers. In addition, the cost model of federated hybrid cloud (COMBSPO) is applied to the conceptual framework to discover the lowest cost solution for implementing the traceability systems in the various public clouds providers. The results suggest that the proposed traceability system achieves the cost-effective solution from implementation of federated clouds, which outperforms that of the traceability system run on the one public cloud.