UNISOT — Digital Product Passports for Transparent, Trusted Agriculture
Project Overview
Company Name: UNISOT
Industry: Agriculture, Agri-Food Supply Chains, Sustainability & Traceability
Project Name: UNISOT Digital Product Passport (DPP)
Geographic Reach: Global (originating in Norway; applied across EU and export-oriented agricultural markets)
BSV Integration Start Date: 2019 (live production deployments)
Business Challenge
What inefficiencies or risks existed?
Agricultural supply chains are among the most complex and fragmented in the world. UNISOT identified persistent challenges across farming, processing, and distribution:
Limited traceability from farm to consumer, making it difficult to prove origin, production methods, and quality
Manual and siloed record-keeping for harvest data, inputs, animal welfare, and temperature conditions
Rising regulatory pressure for food safety, sustainability, and EU Digital Product Passport compliance
Difficulty verifying sustainability claims, including organic status, water usage, and emissions
Lack of consumer trust driven by food fraud, mislabeling, and opaque sourcing
Why traditional systems were insufficient
Centralised databases depend on trust in intermediaries rather than verifiable data
Paper-based records and spreadsheets are slow, error-prone, and easy to manipulate
Closed traceability platforms prevent data sharing across cooperatives, exporters, and retailers
Audits and recalls require manual reconciliation, delaying response times and increasing risk
Why BSV?
What made the BSV blockchain the ideal solution?
UNISOT required a blockchain capable of supporting high-volume, low-cost data events generated across agricultural supply chains:
A public, shared data layer enabling interoperability across farms, cooperatives, exporters, regulators, and retailers
Immutable records ensuring harvest events, certifications, and temperature logs cannot be altered
Uses Digital signatures enabling each supply chain actor to sign their own data, ensuring accountability
Scalability and low transaction costs suitable for frequent agricultural data logging
Transparency aligned with EU food safety and sustainability regulations
Comparison to other blockchain options
Private blockchains lacked transparency and created vendor lock-in
Centralised traceability platforms could not provide global verification or long-term trust
A public blockchain was required to act as neutral infrastructure for agriculture
Solution Architecture
Overview
UNISOT’s platform creates a digital twin for agricultural products, recording every significant event—from production and harvest to processing, transport, and retail—on a public blockchain.
Key components
Digital Product Passport (DPP) QR codes or RFID tags attached to agricultural products or batches provide access to verified, trusted product data.
Farm-Level Data Capture Origin, farming practices, certifications, and input usage are recorded while farmers retain control over what data is shared.
Immutable Traceability Records Temperature, transport, storage, and processing events are signed, timestamped, and recorded to enable instant forward and backward traceability.
Sustainability & ESG Reporting Water usage, energy consumption, waste and emissions are tracked using real data, supporting Scope 3 and lifecycle reporting.
Consumer Feedback Loop Consumers can scan products to access verified information and provide feedback directly to producers.
Implementation Process
Phases of rollout
Initial deployments focused on Norwegian seafood and EU agriculture
Expansion to broader agri-food categories and export markets
Ongoing onboarding of producers supplying EU markets subject to DPP regulations
Integration with legacy systems
Farmers and cooperatives retain existing farm management and ERP systems, sharing only essential verification data on chain.
Stakeholder onboarding
Farmers, processors, logistics providers, and retailers onboard incrementally, while consumers interact simply via QR codes.
Outcomes & Business Impact
Improvements for agricultural supply chains
End-to-end farm-to-fork traceability with immutable records
Reduced food fraud and mislabeling through signed, verifiable data
Faster recalls and food safety responses
More accurate sustainability reporting based on real data
Before vs after
Before:
Manual compliance reporting
Limited visibility beyond first-tier suppliers
Slow, trust-based audits
After:
Real-time Digital Product Passports
Transparent, verifiable supply chains
Audit-ready data available instantly
Stakeholder value
Farmers: Proof of quality and sustainability, improving market access
Exporters & retailers: Reduced compliance risk and operational friction
Consumers: Increased confidence in origin, quality, and ethics
Challenges & Mitigations
Challenges
Technology adoption in traditional farming environments
Data privacy and commercial sensitivity concerns
Uneven digital maturity across regions
Mitigations
Blockchain enables proof without full data disclosure
Farmers control what data is shared and with whom
Automation reduces administrative burden
Future Vision
Widespread adoption of Digital Product Passports for EU-bound agricultural exports
Expansion into precision agriculture analytics using verified data
AI integration for yield optimization, quality forecasting, and risk detection
Cross-border interoperability across global agri-food supply chains
Testimonial Highlights
“With verifiable data from the field, sustainability reporting becomes factual instead of estimated.” — UNISOT, Putting Agriculture on the Blockchain
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