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 Martin Schäffner | 18 October 2021 | Blockchain, Featured, Track and Trust
Datarella is proud to announce the signing of a two-year contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to further work on the space-linked supply chain product Track & Trust (T&T). As the main contractor to ESA, Datarella is supported by Weaver Labs and OroraTech.
The consortium will jointly work 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. The end solution will be a modular product that will provide a plug and play communication network that allows for end-to-end tracking of the supply chain. This will start from the initial supply of humanitarian aid goods, and extend all the way to the last-mile shipments even when limited or no telecommunication infrastructure is available.
Track and Trust is a unique opportunity to combine Blockchain technology with SatCom and telecom technology to expand the range of offerings for a supply chain monitoring system. With Weaver Labs and OroraTech as our consortium partners and with the technical and financial support by ESA, 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 thrilled to expand our work with the European Space Agency and play a vital role in the Track and Trust project with our product Cell-Stack. Our innovative telecoms solution will ensure connectivity across the supply chain, making it possible for goods to be tracked in a trusted way.
Maria Lema, Co-Founder at Weaver Labs
We are looking forward to bringing in our satellite technology expertise in Track and Trust. With our IoT communication modules we will connect the products developed by the consortium via satellite networks. This allows the global tracking of deliveries, even in very remote areas.
Rupert Amann, Co-Founder and Head of Satellite Development at OroraTech
We are very excited to be backed by the ESA Business Applications and Space Solutions Program and are very much looking forward to the successful integration of blockchain, space and network infrastructure technology into our product Track & Trust.
About Datarella’s Consortium Partners
About Weaver Labs
At Weaver Labs, we are creating an open and shared marketplace of connectivity assets, with an extensive focus on security, to accelerate innovation by enabling connectivity. Our innovative software layer called Cell-Stack aggregates and digitises all the necessary assets to build Networks and access connectivity on-demand.
Weaver Labs believes that an open marketplace of connectivity assets can truly democratise access to reliable networks and stimulate innovative applications, making networks accessible to new industries and citizens that require reliable connectivity. Through prioritising security in a diverse supply chain and building trust with an open infrastructure model, we believe that these are the fundamental foundations needed to foster innovation and thus, create a positive impact on society. More about Weaver Labs: https://weaverlabs.io/
About OroraTech
OroraTech is a NewSpace start-up headquartered in Munich, Germany, providing a global satellite-based wildfire detection and monitoring service by processing data from various available satellite sources. In parallel, the company is developing its own nanosatellite constellation specialized in wildfire detection, with the first satellite launching at the end of 2021. Founded in 2018 by Thomas Grübler, Björn Stoffers, Florian Mauracher, and Rupert Amann as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the company has grown to an international team of 50 employees. OroraTech has been supported by research grants from the Bavarian and German government, the European Space Agency and the European Commission, and graduated accelerator programs at Google, Samsung, Plug&Play, ESA BIC, and the German Accelerator Silicon Valley. More about OroraTech: https://ororatech.com/
