by SPR | 4 July 2023 | Blockchain, Featured, Track and Trust
Datarella and its partners Weaver Labs and OroraTech are proud to announce: Track & Trust has successfully passed the Factory Acceptance Test of the European Space Agency (ESA)! The development of Track & Trust has been successfully completed, undergoing rigorous testing procedures. Now, it is time for Track & Trust to showcase its capabilities and create value in a real-world deployment.
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Track & Trust combines modern Web3, communication, and satellite technologies, creating a robust supply chain solution that caters to the actual needs of users. By leveraging these cutting-edge advancements, Track & Trust allows logistics companies and humanitarian organizations to navigate complex scenarios, such as aid supply coordination in regions with compromised or non-existent communications infrastructure. Even in remote and disconnected areas, Track & Trust provides the transparency and authentic data required for efficient operations.
From the very beginning, efforts were made to understand the requirements in the field of logistics precisely. Real logistic processes were examined to identify their weaknesses. We have dedicated ourselves to developing a robust system that ultimately had to meet high stress criteria in the testing procedures required by the ESA, which funded the project with about EUR 1.5 million. We went through a complex development process where partners with three different technologies had to position their core competencies appropriately while integrating them seamlessly to become more than the sum of their parts.
The product – introducing Probabilistic Supply Chain Tracking
Unlike traditional supply chain solutions, Track & Trust offers a probabilistic approach to tracking goods. Any interaction with the shipment, including scanning a Track & Trust QR code, triggers a status update, providing as much information about the shipment as possible! It is ultimately up to the client which information to utilize. Track & Trust’s emphasis on data collection unlocks a world of possibilities for process innovation. By leveraging the data obtained from the operational area, logisticians can complement and expand their services in new and exciting ways. This data-driven approach opens doors to potential future extensions, such as training AI models to predict delivery shrinkage, stock levels, and route recommendations. By harnessing the power of data, Track & Trust generates added value for logistic companies’ customers, offering new competitive advantages in the industry
What lies ahead in the journey of Track & Trust?
We have successfully completed a significant milestone with the Factory Acceptance Test. Concrete processes with our partners are already being planned for the upcoming pilot phase. In the coming weeks, these plans will be further refined, and the delivery of Track & Trust system components will be carried out in the most suitable deployment area where it can achieve the greatest impact and benefit. We will announce the specific deployment scenario in our future blog posts. So, stay tuned!
Our next milestone is the Site Acceptance Test. Here we will conduct another series of tests under real conditions before the system is used for the first time by logisticians and partners.
We are excited to demonstrate the impact and benefits of Track & Trust very soon and to revolutionize the supply chain sector with its technological potential!
by Valeria Pinto | 16 May 2023 | Blockchain, Featured, SmartAid, Track and Trust, Web3 Company Builder
Track & Trust is ready to launch soon! Here’s what’s new: Unlike many other supply chain solutions, it offers a probabilistic rather than a deterministic approach to tracking goods. In short, this means the solution captures tons of data that logistics firms are currently missing out on, with Track & Trust – Probabilistic 360° Supply Chain Tracking.
Track & Trust combines a set of modern Web3, communication, and satellite technologies and aims to address significant unsolved challenges of today’s supply chains. Combining various communication systems creates a network for the supply chain even in the most remote areas of the world.
Any kind of shipment information from such areas is highly valuable for all actors along the supply chain, such as logistic firms, their clients, the end consumer, and the operating teams on the ground. One of the current challenges is the accessibility of information in fast-changing and remote areas – an issue the Track & Trust team seeks to facilitate. While other supply chain systems deterministically produce output information by requiring a specific input, Track & Trust does not rely on standardized initial input, minimizing hurdles in gaining knowledge. Our probabilistic approach, in contrast, allows maximum flexibility. Any kind of slightest interaction with the shipment, even if it is only the scanning of a T&T QR code with a smartphone, leads to the submission of a status update. And it doesn’t matter whether logistical staff or anyone else has carried out this scan or someone not related to it.
Additionally, users are free to report on the status of the shipment or their own circumstances, meaning they can communicate through a text field and provide any extra information on the shipment on their terms, e.g. “flooded route. Took a different route, delivery delayed by two hours”. It is ultimately at the discretion of the logistics operators to multiply the effectiveness of their tracking tools to decide how and what data they use.
Leveraging Data to Drive Process Innovation
Data from the operational area is the actual raw material – logisticians can use them to complement or expand their services in a new way. This leaves room for extensions in the future, for example, on a basis of such a broad database, AI models could be trained to ultimately make predictions about the shrinkage of deliveries, stock levels, and route recommendations. Doing so creates added value for logistic companies’ customers and new competitive advantages for the company itself. Thereby, while increasing efficiency and transparency, Track & Trust holds the potential to change the logistics industry. Lastly, we feel grateful that by investing in this project, the European Space Agency underscores the overall potential of our tracking tool.
As things are beginning to take shape, stay tuned for updates on Track & Trust as it is ready for deployment by 2023!
by SPR | 13 February 2023 | Blockchain, Featured, Track and Trust
Track & Trust – the satellite-powered supply chain solution by Datarella is coming! Track & Trust combines a set of modern Web3, communication, and satellite technologies and aims to address major unsolved challenges of today’s supply chains. Once completed, it seeks to prove its reliability in the most challenging regions of the world.
The supply chain industry is facing massive changes through technological evolution. Led by Datarella, a consortium with our partners Weaver Labs and OroraTech has realized the opportunity to merge blockchain, network and satellite technologies to create a unique supply chain solution that meets the actual needs of its users. With its investment in Track & Trust, the European Space Agency (ESA) underlines the potential of this unique project. We at Datarella are proud of the progress the project has made since its kick-off in 2021. Track & Trust is currently in its late development phase and is scheduled to be ready for deployment by 2023!
What makes Track & Trust so innovative?
Today’s delivery processes face complex challenges – especially when dealing with crisis scenarios involving aid supplies and when the technical conditions on the ground are poor, but the demands for reliability and accountability are high. Logistics companies and humanitarian organizations, like our partner Aid Pioneers, are then faced with the challenge of coordinating aid supplies in regions where the communications infrastructure has most likely been destroyed. To ensure that goods arrive where they are supposed to, sufficient transparency, especially in these remote and disconnected areas, is required. Ultimately, it is not only a matter of transmitting information about the aid supplies but also of ensuring authentic undistorted data that reflects the actual facts on the ground.
What impact can Track & Trust have?
With the help of satellite technology and network technology, we intend to span the Internet over those separate areas that have no or insufficient Internet connection due to the crisis. In other words, we are putting a lot of effort into tracking deliveries right down to the last mile, which is unique in this way. Emerging from such a challenging demonstration, Track & Trust ultimately proves its suitability for any commercial application. Track & Trust holds the potential to change the logistics industry by increasing efficiency, transparency, and security.
So, it stays exciting! Stay tuned for updates on Track & Trust!
by Michael Reuter | 31 January 2023 | Blockchain, European Blockchain Association, Featured
Datarella, a founding member of the European Blockchain Association, is thrilled that Dr. Clara Guerra, Deputy Director of the Office for Financial Market Innovation and Digitalisation (SFID) of the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein, will contribute her exemplary expertise to the EBA as its new board member. Effective January 1, 2023, Dr. Guerra has taken over the position of Kent Gärtner, who stepped down from the EBA board.
As a lawyer by training with a focus on high-tech and innovation, Dr. Guerra previously worked in the private sector and is active as a board member in higher education and Medtech. She lectures and regularly publishes emerging tech and other innovation topics from a governmental perspective. With her unique insight into one of the most crypto-friendly markets in Europe, and her experience with regulation and policy work in the DeFi and blockchain, digitalization, and technology education field, she is a perfect fit for the association and its goal to empower the European blockchain ecosystem.
Adding a unique European viewpoint
“We could not be happier about Clara’s decision to join our board. She has a wealth of expertise and brings fresh ideas, insights, and points of view to the continuing conversations taking place within the blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem. In the current era of the industry, when nuanced and pragmatic dialogue is needed more than ever before, her skills in regulation and policy will be extremely beneficial. We are looking forward to working together with the other members of the EBA board to advance our mission of enhancing and bolstering the capabilities of the European blockchain ecosystem”, says Dr. Michael Gebert, Chairman of the European Blockchain Association.
“With its semi-autonomous, decentralized operating model, the European Blockchain Association is quite different from other associations. Our goal is to provide a platform for people who want to make an impact. Clara joining our board explicitly because she shares our vision and is willing to actively contribute to our various projects and working groups is a big win for the EBA and its members. We are thrilled to be working with her”, Datarella CEO Michael Reuter, Co-Chair of the European Blockchain Association, adds.
Policy and regulation – an EBA strong suit
After three years of building a base for the association, establishing working groups from Proof of Stake to SSI, Custody, Education, Tokenization, and NFT, and giving its members a voice in relevant industry discussions, in 2023 the European Blockchain Association will add a focus on regulatory and policy work. With the appointment of Erwin Voloder as Senior Policy Fellow last year and Dr. Clara Guerra as a new board member, the association is best equipped to contribute strong expertise to public discussions, regulatory bodies, and across European projects.
“Fostering innovation has always been my passion. Innovation is conventionally associated with strength. However, most of the time it is a rather fragile transition state that relies on enabling circumstances. Regulation is a key enabler for technological innovation, especially in the finance sector, and must be approached with deliberate consideration. I am very excited to join the European Blockchain Association. The active and very knowledgeable community, the pragmatic mindset, and the decentralized approach to achieving its goals are perfect frameworks for me. I am looking forward to collaborating with my fellow board members and the whole EBA community”, says Dr. Clara Guerra.
Kent Gärtner, who was a board member of the EBA since its inception is stepping down from his position for personal reasons. The board would like to thank him for his invaluable contributions in the start-up phase of the association.
by Martin Schäffner | 2 December 2022 | Blockchain, Featured
Datarella is happy to announce that Paul Viehauser is joining as a Blockchain Working Student. He is enthusiastic about a more decentralized future and has experience in information systems and digital transformation. Please welcome him on 1 December 2022 as part of the Datarella team.
Paul Viehauser: “My name is Paul Viehauser, and I will be a Working Student at Datarella from December 2022.
I believe blockchain has the potential to upend many industries. The fact that we can deploy purely code-based systems to eliminate intermediaries gives me hope for a more decentralized and democratized future. I am convinced that the blockchain use cases will expand even further as the maturity of the technology advances.
My technical understanding and entrepreneurial drive help me to understand and grasp the blockchain fundamentals and the community behind it. Previous work experiences and curiosity led me to this fantastic and fascinating technology. I’m eager to build this technology and community and thereby transform our society in a positive manner.
Datarella stood out to me as one of the few established web3 companies that had proven themselves successful in the past and had a bright vision for the future. I am happy to be part of the journey and look forward to shaping a more decentralized future with the Datarella team.”
by Simon Zehentreiter | 28 November 2022 | Blockchain, COSMIC-X, ESCOM, Featured, Gaia-X, KOSMoS, moveID, Ocean Protocol, Partnerships, SSI
To visualize and structure ongoing Gaia-X projects and their thematically related studies, Datarella created a project landscape that comprises the three domains Gaia-X Federation Services, Automotive & Mobility and Industry 4.0. The relations between projects are modeled as directed edges, the technologies that are associated with each project are represented as icons – the Gaia-X Project Landscape:
The overarching goal of Gaia-X is to create a federated and secure data infrastructure for Europe and beyond that allows companies and citizens to share data without giving up control over it. Every ecosystem participant decides what happens to their data, where it is stored and thus always retains absolute data sovereignty. To achieve this, the Gaia-X architecture follows the principle of decentralization, with a multitude of individual platforms all following a common standard based on openness, transparency and trust.
The Gaia-X Federation Services, at the center of the visualization, are the implementation toolbox and minimum technical requirements and services that enable Gaia-X Federations to become operational and work together. Federations are individual participants that team up to create value for all participants and to open up new market potentials.
- The Identity & Trust service closes the trust gap by enabling federations to authenticate and authorize participants. This is achieved by utilizing Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), specifically Decentralized Digital Identifiers (DIDs), Verifiable Credentials (VCs) and Verifiable Presentations (VPs), which ensure that every participant is in full control of their identity at all times.
- The Federated Catalogue service allows federations to set up a repository, in which participants can search for and discover information and services of other participants based on their aforementioned credentials.
- The Sovereign Data Exchange service helps participants in keeping sovereignty over their data by providing functionalities for specifying and tracking how their data is used.
- The Compliance service ensures that every participant and service is complying with the Gaia-X principles. Together with a number of decentralized services that are part of the Gaia-X policy, it provides decentralized, sovereign and immutable governance and control mechanisms that enable trustworthy transactions between participants.
- Lastly, the Gaia-X Portal provides user friendly access to the Federation Services and supports the onboarding and accreditation of participants as well as the discovery of services.
The Gaia-X Federation Services are co-developed by the GXFS-DE project, funded by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and coordinated by eco – Association of the Internet Industry.
The Automotive & Mobility domain harbors three Gaia-X lighthouse projects, the Mobility Data Space, Catena-X and EONA-X. The Mobility Data Space is funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) and deals with the creation of a data marketplace that allows for the sovereign exchange of mobility data in Europe, Catena-X is funded by the BMWK and is tasked with establishing a trustworthy, collaborative, open and secure data ecosystem for the automotive industry. The objective of EONA-X is to establish a dedicated European data space for mobility, transport and tourism, developed on the path of the Gaia-X initiative. Funding is mostly provided by the private sector.
Datarella, as previously announced, is working on the moveID project, which, together with four related ventures, is part of the Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility project family. The goal of moveID is to develop a digital identity infrastructure and trustworthy data exchange process for the mobility of the future. Feasibility will be shown on the basis of two use cases, V2X services in heterogenous, decentralized mobility infrastructures and vehicle data sharing. moveID is funded by the BMWK and the interdisciplinary consortium of mobility enterprises, Web3 companies and research facilities is lead by BOSCH.
The Industry 4.0 sector features a German-Austrian joint Gaia-X lighthouse project, EuProGigant. It’s intention is to establish an ecosystem that enables the smart and sovereign use of data for production. Funding is provided by the BMWK and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK).
With KOSMoS, Datarella has already successfully finished a research project in the Industry 4.0 space by realizing a collaborative smart contracting platform for digital value networks. Now, based on these results, Datarella is also involved in the two followup Gaia-X projects Cosmic-X and ESCOM. Cosmic-X is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and deals with advanced smart services in the context of spare part supply chain automation and optimization. The specific use cases that will be explored are digital twins, trusted supply chains and platform-based maintenance. ESCOM is funded by the BMWK and seeks to make a demonstrable contribution to a responsible manufacturing industry regarding resource consumption and sustainable resource use. The project will demonstrate that the use and balancing of edge and cloud data spaces allows for the flexible, load- and energy demand-dependent use of services as a know-how offering of component manufacturers with high utility value for the end application. Both projects are carried out in collaboration with leading industry partners and research facilities.
We are incredibly proud to be contributing to the development of the Gaia-X ecosystem in two critical domains and hope that our illustration sheds some light on the work that has already been done and will continue to be done towards an open, transparent and secure data infrastructure for everyone.
by Michael Reuter | 24 November 2022 | Blockchain, Featured, Gaia-X, moveID
We’re happy to invite you to our upcoming Live AMA “Building the Digital Identity Infrastructure for Mobility” on 7 December 2022, 17:00 CET (16:00 UTC).
Moderated by John Hildebrandt, our CEO Michael Reuter, and our CTO Rebecca L. Johnson will explain the role and goal of Datarella in moveID, the €20M+ Gaia-X project. This AMA will be hosted as a Twitter Space on the moveID Twitter account. If you want to learn more about moveID, Gaia-X, and how it feels to work in this consortium consisting of 19 large corporations, SMEs, Web3 projects, and research institutes, tune in!
If you already have questions, feel free to add them in the comment section. We’ll try to pick them up and answer during the Live session! Feel also free to follow us on Twitter, and LinkedIn and discuss all things Web3 with the Datarella team – see you there!
by Michael Reuter | 18 November 2022 | Blockchain, Featured, Ocean Protocol, Partnerships, Web3 Company Builder
In a world premiere, Datarella, Biennale de Paris, and Ocean Protocol, present DIAM, the Decentralised Invisual Art Marketplace. DIAM allows buying invisual art in a totally new way, by combining the international art market with Web3, the latest technological development. DIAm is the latest member of the Datarella Web3 Company Builder model.
DIAM is the Decentralized Invisual Art Marketplace. It intends to value a new form of creativity, a new form of art: Invisual Art. The idea of DIAM is to unleash creativity on a global scale. DIAM’s dream is to augment human beings through art. On DIAM, art lovers can purchase invisual art experiences using $OCEAN, a crypto-currency that uniquely and in an unforgeable way guarantees the purchase of art experiences. DIAM’s decentralized architecture allows artists to showcase their work and present their art in a completely autonomous process, guaranteeing them a fair share of income.
Invisual Art
Invisual art is art that exists other than in the form of artworks. The practices of invisual art have in common the fact of existing other than in the form of a work of art. There is no definition of invisual art, if not this common point. Invisual art is an art that exists most often as an experience and not as an object. The invisual practices are extremely varied: lifestyle, behaviors, experiments, state of mind
DIAM Goals
- To enable invisual artists to make a living from their work;
- To enable anyone to become an artist through the valuation of their invisual creativity;
- To provide a tool to encourage inventiveness in art by mixing the latest technologies with the latest form of art in order to build the next-generation art market;
- To encourage the emergence of new types of collectors and investors in art;
- Marketing art as an experience.
How To Buy Invisual Art?
At the official DIAM launch event on 11 November 2022, Alexandre Gurita, Director of the Biennale de Paris and of the Ecole Nationale d’Art (ENDA), and Corina Mila, Enseignante-Chercheuse at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, introduced the audience to the concept of Invisual Art. Michael Reuter, Co-founder & CEO of Datarella, and Rebecca L. Johnson, CTO of Datarella, have demonstrated how to buy invisual art at DIAM using datatokens. Special guest Casey Herd, Artistic Director of BALLET RISING, has explained how DIAM enables Ballet lovers all over the world to immerse in the ballet experience using DIAM datatokens.
Feel free to register for free and experience the latest development at the intersection of technology and art!
If you are interested to learn more about the Decentralized Invisual Art Marketplace, feel free to follow DIAM on Twitter, and LinkedIn and discuss all things invisual art with the DIAM team – see you there!
by Simon Zehentreiter | 11 November 2022 | Blockchain, ESCOM, Featured, SSI
Datarella, as part of a consortium of leading industry manufacturers and research facilities, is beginning work on the feasibility study “ESCOM – Balanced Edge Cloud Environments for Superior Component Service Systems in Production Applications”, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
With the project, the consortium plans to make a demonstrable contribution to a responsible manufacturing industry regarding resource consumption and sustainable resource use. The project seeks to actively strengthen the innovative power of European industry and infrastructure providers and promote the emergence of socially relevant, freely consumable qualification offerings in the industrial and academic sectors. In this way, the consortium intends to provide an incentive for the relocation of global production capacities back to Europe.
The sustainable value proposition of a future configurable digital product instance is formulated as a digital twin of any machine component to reduce resource consumption via component information and increase machine availability and process reliability with condition and process information. The interdisciplinary consortium will demonstrate that the use and balancing of edge and cloud data spaces allows for the flexible, load- and energy demand-dependent use of services as a know-how offering of component manufacturers with high utility value for the end application. For this purpose, the consortium will use standards and open source software on the basis of the Gaia-X data infrastructure, which in the future will enable the exchange of smart service offerings of component manufacturers via the product service representation under the management shell concept of Plattform Industrie 4.0.
Owing to its experience in leveraging blockchain technology for real-world use cases (e.g. KOSMoS), Datarella is responsible for identifying relevant components, processes, data and blockchain plattforms as well as developing and implementing the services and sovereign data exchange processes that will enable an open, transparent and secure infrastructure.
We are very proud to be part of this project and looking forward to collaborating with all of the partners involved.
Project consortium
