Research on data acquisition system for agent-based bee product traceability platform

Bee product traceability platform has been set up based on Chinese law and global standards, which can be used to identify every process from farm to table. An integrated bee product traceability system includes the whole process of supply chain; meanwhile, the traceability data will be open to consumer. Thus it can enhance consumer confidence on bee products. In bee product traceability platform, original data acquisition is vital and the data must be secure, precise and timely. In this paper, data acquisition system is developed to solve the problems such as collecting data, managing original data and realizing data interaction in a timely and accurate manner through bee product traceability architecture which is based on multi-agent system (MAS). Thanks to MAS' special attributes and features, data acquisition agent and management agent could obtain data as well as apply safety and reliable data for bee product traceability platform.