The Track & Trust Mission in Southern Lebanon

We chose to track shipments of solar equipment for the Track & Trust Pilot. Destined for clinics and schools serving refugees in Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, these shipments were critical to the region. The area is home to over 300,000 Syrian refugees, according to UNHCR, and they all need medical care. Our partners, Aid Pioneers, Multi Aid Programs, and Al-Manhaj, collaborate to provide logistics, education, and medical care on the ground.

The clinics and schools require continuous a continuous electrical power supply. Due to Lebanon’s severe energy crisis, the public grid provides only about two hours of electricity per day, making the delivery of efficient healthcare services an immense challenge. In absence of a stable grid, most of the region’s essential services rely on generators, leaving the financial stability of operations at the whim of the ever-increasing price of diesel. Typical health clinics have thousands of dollars in monthly operating costs due to the need to purchase this fuel. To address this, Aid Pioneers is replacing diesel power systems with clean, abundant solar energy, one clinic at a time. By reliably shipping the equipment from Tripoli to Beqaa Valley, they achieve this goal with our help. Specifically the shipments we’ve tracked during the pilot contained all the equipment needed to outfit two clinics with enough solar power to cover all their needs. Aid Pioneers partner, Multi Aid Programs runs the clinics which received the solar and medical equipment we tracked.

Tracking Impact

Using Track & Trust, Aid Pioneers and their partners gained a clear view of what was happening to the parts in their shipment. As a result, they avoided extra trips, saving work and potential exposure to danger. Our team planned this deployment long before the recent conflict broke out, and our system performed well in the midst of a very difficult situation. Effective management of the challenges that arose was crucial to the success of the project.

During the shipments, ground personnel encountered outages of critical infrastructure, losing power and 4G connectivity several times. Fortunately, our Track & Trust mesh node infrastructure filled the gap, and our battery backup system enabled the system to run despite the power grid being down. The system’s design allowed it to handle such outages.

When 4G connectivity was lost, our mesh nodes cached delivery data until it could be passed between nodes. Utilizing technologies developed with our partner, Weaver Labs, we ensured the data was secure. Next, we used a satellite-enabled mesh node to post data that would have otherwise been lost via Iridium satellite uplink, developed by our partner Ororatech.

Aid Pioneers received hundreds of updates about the status of the goods from us. To ensure the integrity of the data, we cryptographically signed and anchored these updates to the ASI Alliance blockchain, making them highly trustworthy. This extra step was crucial to the project’s success. Together the result is highly trustable probabilistic 360° supply chain tracking.

Energy Independence One Clinic at a Time

Two major sets of shipments were completed under the watchful eye of Track & Trust, and a third set is currently being shipped to Lebanon. With 110 kWp of power, the solar systems make two entire clinics energy independent for the next twenty years. Additionally, we tracked a container of medical goods, which Al-Manhaj and Multi Aid Programs are using to save lives and provide medical treatment in Tripoli and the Beqaa Valley.

Track & Trust Proof of Resilience

The design of Track & Trust allows it to work in various contexts, providing resilience and probabilistic 360° supply chain tracking. Adaptable to different scenarios, our system is highly versatile. As we continue to develop and refine our system, we will meet the changing needs of our partners.

Next Steps

Following this piloting success, we will examine plans to make the system more user-friendly. Logistics organizations that could use more resilience in their field operations are also being contacted. If this series of blog posts has piqued your interest, please reach out, and we will schedule a call or demo.

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Aid Pioneers – an Ideal Pilot Partner

We have been working with our humanitarian partner Aid Pioneers for many months to prepare for these shipments. Aid Pioneers connects available resources from donors directly to recipient organizations. Through close collaboration with on the ground initiatives and the private sector, Aid Pioneers connects resources from donors directly with local organizations to foster sustainable, community-led change. They do this in places that need them most, making them a highly innovative humanitarian agency. They take an end-to-end approach to the supply chain, which we believe suits Track & Trust perfectly. Aid Pioneers needs to extend tracking of supplies beyond what typical supply chain tracking products can accomplish. We are helping them achieve this.

Supply Chain Tracking Challenges

Aid Pioneers‘ logistics environment provides a perfect showcase for what Track & Trust can do. When Aid Pioneers ships a container full of medical supplies or solar power generation equipment to a Lebanese clinic or school, they hire a freight forwarder to pick up the goods. The freight forwarder then organizes the delivery to a local port via semi-truck. After that, a freight forwarder loads the container onto a ship. The ship travels to a port of entry in Lebanon, and we track its progress using a typical tracking link. However, once the container clears customs, we take over. We actively track it and pick up where traditional systems stop working.

At this point we encounter tricky conditions. Aid Pioneers local lebanese partner Al-Manhaj breaks down containers into multiple pallets or depalletizes them. They do this before final delivery. After that they deliver goods to one location while others go to other locations at different times. To keep track of what was delivered when, we use probabilistic 360° supply chain tracking. We also developed strategies to deal with power and connectivity outages.

Outwitting Outages

These outages always happen at the wrong time so it’s important that the system is able to handle them. We do this with built in backup batteries and a battery management system. On top of that, the communications landscape is very challenging.  Sometimes there’s 4G connectivity and at other times there’s outages. Our mesh nodes can operate no matter, though, by caching incoming data locally. The nodes just wait until the data can be posted or handed off to other mesh nodes. This approach multiplies the effectiveness of our communications assets.  On top of that, we positioned one of our satellite uplinks at a local school. As a result, every event is (at the minimum) recorded and transmitted asynchronously – even when conditions are at their worst.

These logistics challenges are not unique to Aid Pioneers’ operations. However, they are particularly pronounced in the places where they work. We believe that if our system works there and brings value to freight forwarders and humanitarian organizations, it will work anywhere. As a result of this testing we’re confident in the capabilities of Track & Trust.

In our next post we’ll describe exactly how the our pilot operations went – and what the big value drivers are.

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Orchestration Systems and CI/CD

To manage a large fleet of custom-built mesh node devices, we needed to develop advanced orchestration systems. Specifically, these systems enable us to provision and manage devices efficiently. Furthermore, we created a special approach to real-time monitoring of node health in the field. As a result, Track & Trust includes a full suite of dashboards that we can now use to monitor key performance indicators and display the outputs of our Probabilistic 360° Supply Chain Tracking product. In addition the orchestration systems we built are now fully operational and enable a highly flexible approach to updating and managing the software deployed to our hardware in the field.  Let’s jump into how we accomplished this feat.

The Addressing Challenge

Most people aren’t aware of this but devices on 4g connections don’t have static IP addresses. The IP addresses are assigned by the constantly shifting cellular towers the mobile device connects to. This is a real problem if you want to set up a software pipeline to trigger updates on mobile or iOT devices. In order to solve this we set up a virtual private network (VPN). This VPN is based on the open source wireguard protocol. Basically it’s a software defined network with tailscale under the hood. This approach means using a peer-to-peer mesh network to handle addressing devices inside our mesh network (pretty meta huh?). By routing our network traffic through a VPN we achieved much better security. On top of this we got static virtual addresses. This allowed us to name and manage the machines at the network level.

Push or Pull Orchestration Systems?

With the addressing problem solved another challenge popped up. If the machines are only online intermittently, a push approach to updates becomes impossible. This is because when you push the updates it might not reach all the machines. Some machines will inevitably be offline. The solution to this issue was to use a scheduled automation to automatically pull updates from an ansible automation engine. This, in turn, is controlled by a continuous integration and deployment system based around Semaphore. This enabled us to write code in an integrated development environment, push it to gitlab, and then trigger a build that the machines pick up. These builds, then deploy automatically on a daily basis whenever the machines happen to come online.

While we were still heavily in development, having this pipeline in place vastly increased our efficiency. We were able to write code and deploy to our custom made IoT hardware basically as though it was sitting in a cloud environment. On top of this we were able to designate groups of machines as dev machines and others as stage or prod machines.  This combination allowed us to develop and test both hardware and software independently of production and staging environments. It empowered us to rapidly iterate on the status quo without breaking hardware already in use in the field. Additionally the moment that we were ready to update mesh nodes in the field, we could earmark them to update themselves with well tested code the next time they came online.

Real-Time Monitoring

We needed advanced monitoring to easily update our software fleet. To achieve this, we set up an end-to-end observability pipeline using Fluentbit. This pipeline routed data in real-time from our mesh nodes into a database. Subsequently, we displayed real-time data in Grafana for management purposes. This approach enabled us to debug faster without having to SSH into a specific node to get its logs.

Finally, our Grafana dashboards showed us if all services were up and running, as well as key indicators of device health such as memory usage, temperature, and battery life. We could display logs in the timeframes we were interested in for the machine groups we wanted to monitor. In conclusion, this monitoring technology gave us valuable insights into ensuring our deployed hardware was working correctly and allowed us to fix issues quickly.

The Track & Trust dashboard with realtime information about each machine to optimize field operations

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Quick navigation links to the follow-up articles will be provided at the bottom of each article once the series is complete. For now, let’s jump in.

Establishing a foundation for the data authenticity chain

We designed our system to accommodate key requirements that establish a foundation for data authenticity. Specifically, our goal was to create a flexible system. This system can work with any logistics company, regardless of their internal processes. Notably, we achieved this flexibility, which is a key benefit of Track and Trust. This allows us to collaborate with a wide range of partners. Furthermore, logistics companies can increase the number of data points they receive about their shipments from the field by using Track & Trust.

This, in turn, enables them to achieve probabilistic 360° supply chain tracking. Our team structured the Track & Trust data to integrate easily into any logistics database. In particular, we use a series of linked cryptographic signatures and blockchain transactions to create this data authenticity chain. Finally, this chain of custody has a specific purpose. It ensures that we can authenticate and validate offline events once they reach our servers.

How does the data authenticity chain work?

TLDR: We leverage APIs to take inputs from our customers (Logistics Firms) as well as to give them valuable probabilistic 360° supply chain tracking data back. For demonstration purposes we have built a front-end website to make the system tangible but the magic happens via our swagger API.

The processes surrounding our data authenticity chain are pretty technical. To make it easier to understand we’ve formated the workflow into a sequence diagram that anyone can understand.

In summary, our data authenticity chain is simply a way of validating, recording and making messy data from the field trustworthy. Once that’s accomplished leverage our blockchain toolkit to make those data immutable and highly tamper resistant. It’s a chain of custody for that data that includes built-in proof of origin. This, in turn, enables traceability and trust beyond the current state of the art.

Our next post will cover all of the ways that we can view this information. We’ll also be covering the orchestration systems operating in the background that enable us to do over the air updates to the hardware.  There will be dashboards, monitoring and CI/CD galore for your perusal.

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The Challenges

What if 4G doesn’t work at all? Remote logistics operations or external circumstances like war or political instability can cause this issue. In such cases, tracking becomes a challenge, especially when the electrical power is unreliable. Consequently, we need to find alternative solutions. We spent quite some time solving these issues. Fortunately, we did indeed find a way. With funding from the European Space Agency, we built a Satellite-enabled Mesh Network. Some mesh nodes now have more super powers, enabling them to do everything they could before, and more. Moreover, these special satellite-enabled mesh nodes are more expensive, but they have a special trick up their sleeves. They can post data to our servers even without 4G internet. Here’s how it works.

Satellite-Enabled Mesh Nodes

The yellow box in the picture represents a satellite enabled mesh node. By adding an Iridium short burst data (SBD) transmitter to it, we gave it superpowers. Connecting this node to a mesh node via waterproof cables turns it into a super node. Our partners at OroraTech built this part of the system. Data arrives at this node using peer to peer communication over wifi-direct. The Iridium short burst data (SBD) Transmitter consumes information from cellmesh, finding out what data didn’t get posted to the internet via 4g. To make this work, a clear view of the sky is necessary. That’s why we waterproofed the enclosures. Strategic placement of these nodes is crucial. A good position is one where many other nodes will pass by, and it should also have a relatively solid electrical power supply. In our pilot, the roof of a local school with a solar power installation already in place proved to be an ideal location. Furthermore, this location allowed us to test the system in a real-world setting. Breaking down each data package into smaller packages is essential. These packages must be small enough to send over Iridium short burst data. As a result, each user action results in 8-9 individual satellite messages. These messages are encoded and transmitted individually, error checked, and then recombined. Finally, they can post to our backend systems. Here’s what it looks like in real life – a shot from our labs. In addition to the technical details, we will also cover the practical applications of the system.

What about electrical outages?

We anticipated that the nodes would need to be robust. Ensuring they have enough on-board power was crucial. This compensates for electrical outages, as delivery trucks can only supply 12v power when the ignition is on. Fortunately, our hardware engineer friends at Weaver Labs provided a solid solution to this issue inside these boxes. They equipped the nodes with integrated backup power systems and implemented a battery management system and software. This helps the nodes recover from power outages and situations where the on-board battery is fully depleted. Moreover, this ensures that the system remains operational even in challenging conditions. The result is a combination of hardware and software, enabled by mesh network technology, 4g, and satellite communication. This combination allows the system to stand up to difficult conditions and still work. In conclusion, our system is designed to provide reliable tracking and communication in even the most challenging environments. In our next post, I’ll address how the system handles security, covering the authentication and blockchain details backed into Track & Trust.

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In the photo above we’re showcasing part of our fleet of mesh nodes. As you may recall, you may have seen them before in our recent post announcing that we passed our site acceptance tests with the European Space Agency. Our mesh nodes contain a lot inside. So, what kind of communications superpowers do they possess?

What’s mesh network technology ?

Mesh network technology can be a bit confusing but we’ll demystify the jargon. These black boxes are “mesh nodes,” which in our case means they can communicate with one another using wifi-direct. We also use this protocol to send data from Android phones directly to the nodes without a need for any additional gateways nor internet connectivity.

Why wifi-direct?

We chose wifi-direct because it’s really fast. In fact, nodes can detect one another and negotiate a wireless data connection even at highway speeds. Furthermore, they can do this with only a brief moment of communication.

We serve our application directly from the mesh node to a logistics employee’s phone using wifi-direct. This is useful because we don’t need an internet connection. Afterall we designed the system to cope with the worst conditions imaginable – and lack of network connectivity is where that starts.

Layer 1: Cellmesh Layer

Our partners at Weaver Labs contributed their cellmesh software. Cellmesh controls automatic detection, negotiation, and handling of communication between nodes. Additionally, it continually searches for communication resources like 4G or satcom and routes data to our servers which ensures continuity of operations in adverse conditions.

Layer 2: Mesh Node Layer

Datarella built a software layer on top of the lower-level networking technology from Weaver Labs. Consequently, we call this layer the Mesh Node layer. It has several big jobs:

• Manage data piped into cellmesh from user interactions
• Manage incoming data from cellmesh originating from other nodes
• Maintain efficient data replication between nodes
• Manage deletion of data already posted to the backend

In addition, the Mesh Node layer prevents our data pipelines from growing too large with redundant data. Together, the cellmesh and Mesh Node layers enable individual mesh nodes to connect with one another seamlessly. These nodes automatically  authenticate their identities cryptographically and freely pass authenticated data back and forth. Nodes can also post this data directly to our backend servers.

In the image, the blue boxes represent nodes. The boxes provide service continuity for users in the field who want to post information like deliveries, pickups, damage, delays, and more.  Sometimes they’re connected to one another but not always.  Every box has two 4G cellular antennas and continuously searches for an exit to our Track & Trust cloud.

Patient and Resilient Mesh Network Technology

Our boxes are patient. If they’re offline, they wait until they’re online to post data. Alternatively, if they can’t do that, they wait for another node to come along. When connected, they play a game of telephone. For instance, if one node receives a message from another, it queues that message to pass along when it meets another box.

As we add more nodes to the system, it becomes more resilient. Meanwhile, our cellmesh and mesh node services mean that rollout is zero-configuration. Therefore, we simply plug the nodes into the trucks, and they start communicating with one another and the internet. They serve up mobile interfaces for drivers and warehouse workers to provide the most up-to-date information about what’s happening in the field.

Whenever a node connects with the cloud, it shares everything it knows. Moreover, it tells its “colleagues” which messages it successfully passed on. As a result, this allows them to forget information that they know a “colleague” node has already posted. This is technically known as a “gossip protocol” and it’s at the heart of how our Mesh Network Technology manages the information lifecycle.

In the next post, we’ll explore what happens if 4G isn’t working for some reason. There, we’ll discuss how satellite communications come into play as well as the critical role that GNSS plays.

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We’ve just passed our “Site Acceptance Test” with the European Space Agency. This test evaluates the entire technical range of functionalities expected for the Track & Trust system. Consequently, we’re proud to announce that we passed all the tests in the three-day site acceptance test inspection. We tested all thirty-four formal technical requirements of the system. Although the testing took place in June, we had to keep quiet about it for operational reasons. Meanwhile, our team has been working hard to prepare for the next phase.

We’re building the ultimate communications system with our partners at Weaver Labs and Ororatech. Specifically, Track & Trust relies on “magical” black boxes that make logistics tracking and communication possible in the worst conditions. These boxes can withstand internet outages, power outages, and wet conditions. You can plug them into a truck and they’ll keep working. In addition, they’re designed to be user-friendly and easy to integrate with existing systems.

What’s in the black box?

Our partners at Weaver Labs built hardware with a Swiss Army knife of multi-bearer communications capabilities. It doesn’t need the internet to load the software. The boxes pack 4G radios, two WiFi radios, and Weaver Labs clever cellmesh software capabilities. These capabilities enable them to talk to each other offline, exchange information, and post when possible. They can post using traditional 4G or the included satcom uplink from Ororatech. Furthermore, this technology allows for seamless communication between devices, even in areas with limited connectivity.

We at Datarella have built a suite of interfaces into Track & Trust that any user can leverage to contribute cryptographically signed inputs about logistics events. Our system has real-time monitoring and CI/CD capabilities that enable us to fix issues on the fly. This is a plug-and-play solution for gathering more information about shipments. We can funnel this information directly into logistics service providers’ databases using our APIs. As a result, our customers can enjoy greater visibility and control over their supply chains.

Value for Logistics Tracking Organizations

Track & Trust generates secure, validated events with every user interaction. These events are geolocated with GNSS and timestamped. We anchor them to the fetch.ai blockchain via a hashing mechanism, resulting in a powerful combination of privacy and immutability. Moreover, this ensures that all data is tamper-proof and transparent.

We delayed posting about it publicly because we needed to move quickly and get the devices into our planned piloting environment in Lebanon. This required sensitive handling. Now we’re making progress on the pilot operations in the field, despite difficult conditions. Finally, we’re excited to share more details from the summer and look forward to continuing our work on this groundbreaking project.

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Introduction to Ocean Protocol’s decentralized data marketplace

The Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that aims to unlock the value of data and enable secure and privacy-preserving on-chain data sharing and monetization ⛓️. It provides a framework for building data-centric applications that facilitate the exchange of data assets while ensuring data privacy, security, and compliance.

The Ocean Protocol marketplace is the heart of the entire Ocean Protocol ecosystem. These data sets can be bought and sold along with access to computation on those data. What Uniswap did for Finance, Ocean Protocol is doing for data. Ocean goes beyond just merely trading data in the clear though and makes it possible to order computation on data you never see and get actionable results while maintaining data privacy and secrecy. That in many ways is the holy grail of data privacy and security!

The Ocean Protocol approach to data markets is already gaining substantial traction in industries through the MoveID consortium and GAIA-X where Datarella is a partner. Specifically, there are already industry focused GAIA-X compliant Marketplaces utilizing Ocean protocol already released in the wild (see Pontus-X)

Fetch.ai Agents + Ocean Protocol: A Perfect Match

Switching gears, you may have also heard of Fetch.ai. It provides a next-generation protocol enabling a digital world where Autonomous Economic Agents and Microagents can perform proactive economic activity. AEAs have some unique attributes. Fetch Agents (AEAs) can find resources on their own, they have private keys so they can transact autonomously, and, more importantly, they can decide to execute business logic autonomously based on their programmed skills and behaviors. AEAs are perfect for delegating on-chain tasks that you need to make sure actually happen technically but don’t want to have to handle manually. A great example of this is the stop loss agents that Fetch.ai has released in order to allow people to provision liquidity on DeFi protocols autonomously. Another real-life use case is the kind of behavior that we demonstrated with MOBIX at the International Automobile Show (IAA) in 2021.

In that context, we demonstrated how an Autonomous Economic Agent, running on an edge device and accessible through a specialized version of the MOBIX app, could enable privacy-preserving ad workflows. That sounds super complicated, but its utility is really simple.

Smart Recommendations without Data-Lake-Honeypots

Consumers have come to expect really smart recommendations in their apps based on their current context and previous actions. We’ve come to take this for granted everywhere. It extends from the autocomplete suggestions in your search field to Netflix recommendations to mobility recommendations embedded in scooter rental apps. There’s a shadow side of this intelligence though. Simply put, in order to offer that kind of intelligence someone is invariably building a vast data lake full of your user data to power those convenient algorithms. We all know that this kind of data accumulation has massive privacy ramifications, not to mention the security risks associated with those giant data-lake-honeypots. By connecting Fetch.ai Autonomous Economic Agents with Ocean Compute to Data workflows and the Ocean Marketplace we are laying the cornerstone for enabling that kind context aware convenience without sacrificing any user privacy.

Moreover, outside of the consumer sector in the world of IoT devices, this code makes it really convenient for any number of machines to automatically sell their data either directly on the Ocean Marketplace or via Compute to Data! AEAs have a certain amount of built-in intelligence. This enables IoT devices from cars to weather stations to decide, based on their situation, when and how to post the data to the Ocean Marketplace for sale. Additionally, it allows consuming devices to autonomously search out and purchase the data that they need. Together, this approach provides the basis for autonomous adaptive machine learning without having to own your own ample data sets.

Privacy-Preserving Prediction Engines

TLDR: By enabling Fetch Agents to post data to Ocean Marketplace Compute to Data recommendation engines can be driven without violating privacy.

Datarella has joined forces with Fetch.ai and Ocean protocol over the last few months to build an Ocean Connection Agent to take private data available to itself, store it confidentially, and then spin up a fixed-rate exchange on the Ocean Market or with compute to data enabled as shown in the previous figure. You can imagine that in the near future, this might be your current location data or data about your preferences or searches performed locally within an app (the MOBIX app for example). This data never leaves the sovereign control of the user and the user doesn’t have to worry about handling or organizing or authorizing the data because the AEA does that on behalf of the user well, autonomously! The same applies to companies running AEAs on IoT devices too. You might be asking now why this is even beneficial. It’s useful because it solves the problems associated with those vast data lakes that are driving the recommendation engines behind all sorts of “smart” services.

The Solution for Automating Private Business Intelligence

Ocean Marketplace is an open-source decentralized market that you can fork to develop your own marketplace. It comes equipped with all the features right out of the box. The “Compute to Data” part enables the person, or in this case, AEA is posting the data to stipulate that it cannot be downloaded in the clear – but rather that you’re selling the results of selected algorithms which you or your agent will run (automatically) against the private data on behalf of a purchasing entity (person or AEA). They get the results of the computation – the basis for those context-aware recommendations, but they don’t have the opportunity to abuse the data because they never actually see it despite gaining actionable business intelligence based on the contents of said data. That’s what we mean by “Automating Private Business Intelligence”.

The world we’re building is one where your data remains yours but the results of computations on your data will enable a host of new context-aware smart services that respect your privacy by design but still feel like magic. Bringing the unique properties of the Ocean Marketplace together with Fetch.ai Agents means for the everyday person that it’s increasingly going to be possible that you can have your cake and eat it too. You won’t have to choose between amazing functionality and privacy – you’ll be able to have both – and get paid for it.  Your data – your profits!

Developer Resources

If you’re a developer and want to dive into the code there are two spots you’ll want to check out.  First of all, you’ll find the code open-sourced on github here. Additionally, if you’re already an AEA developer you’ll want to check out the package in the AEA registry. In the near future, we’re also planning to release the Storj AEA but for now, you can take any S3-compatible storage you choose. Let’s start automating private business intelligence generation!

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The consortium led by Datarella is currently working on a Blockchain-based enterprise solution to tackle complex supply chain challenges that humanitarian agencies across the world face in order to track aid in locations that lack access to reliable communications infrastructure. At the end of two years of development and commercial trials, Track & Trust aims to deliver a scalable cost-efficient communications platform & network combining satellite, IoT mesh and blockchain components serving mostly supply chain use cases.

Aid Pioneers agreed to join the Track and Trust initiative as a shipment partner. They will initiate and organize an aid supply for the demonstration of the Track and Trust service. The first shipment is planned for 2023 with the goal to support people in Ukraine. Aid Pioneers is a German association joining other NGOs to build logistics to foreign countries helping people in need.

“We are very proud to have Aid Pioneers on board as our piloting partner for Track and Trust. Aid Pioneers is a young but well-established aid organization active for aid shipments to various regions including Africa, Middle-East including Balkan and Ukraine. With Aid Pioneers as our shipment partner, we have a strong setup to make a success story out of Track and Trust.” Yukitaka Nezu, Co-Founder and CFO at Datarella.

We are very excited to have a piloting agreement with Aid Pioneers and are very much looking forward to a successful shipment with them, leveraging the integration of blockchain, space and network infrastructure technology into our product Track & Trust.

As an expression of our recent progress, we can also announce: Datarella, together with its partners, successfully passed the Critical Design Review (CDR) as one of the significant milestones with ESA. Our design for Track & Trust has been assessed as valid by ESA. We are looking forward to entering the development phase next, together with our partners, in order to start piloting soon!

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