Titulo Estágio
Biographies of things platform – a use case for a sustainable and circular fashion supply chain
Áreas de especialidade
Comunicações, Serviços e Infraestruturas
Sistemas de Informação
Local do Estágio
DEI-FCTUC / CISUC
Enquadramento
The biography of a product consists of a log of the product story along its all life. This log may contain data such as production story, working statistics, availability history, number, and time of failures. As the Internet of Things (IoT) is finally becoming a reality, the number of devices connected is growing at a fast rate, enabling a growing number of applications, some of them requiring some sort of logging. A thing can be anything from a refrigerator to a highly specific health device, including different types of sensor and actuator devices, which communicate between them using the Internet, each with specific needs and hardware limitations. Many of these things also have the need to maintain an immutable ledger, i.e., a history record that cannot be changed and that can be audited. This working record may help companies to control their products warranties, to understand the reasons of malfunctions, and to give users the confidence that a specific thing has gone through a specific set of steps or that it comes from where it says. One way of creating immutable ledgers is to use blockchain.
In this work the student will research the application of blockchain technologies to provide the biography of things applied to a sustainable and circular fashion supply chain, exploring the use of different blockchains own by different companies and regulators, mixing private and public information. This work will continue the development of on an existing platform that uses blockchain to support the biographies of things. The work will be developed in the context of the creation of a Digital Product Passport for the fashion industry, available for inspection from all stakeholders along the supply chain, including the final customer.
Objetivo
The work to be done under this proposal has three main objectives:
- Study of the application of blockchain as a support technology to enable the creation of a Digital Product Passport for the fashion industry;
- Study the integration of different blockchains from multiple stakeholders.
- Development of a platform prototype to support the biography of textiles, using multiple blockchains and external storage.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
1) Study of the state-of-the-art of product biographies, and its application on the fashion industry.
2) Study of blockchain and supporting tools.
3) Design of a generic platform to support the biography of things using blockchains from multiple stakeholders.
Work results of the semester:
• Initial prototype of a blockchain using blockchains from multiple stakeholders.
• Intermediate report.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
4) Development of a working prototype of a Digital Product Passport platform for the fashion industry that supports multiple blockchains from different stakeholders and external data storage.
5) Tests and validation.
6) Performance analysis.
7) Writing of the final report.
Work results of the semester:
• Digital Product Passport platform for the fashion industry that supports the integration of blockchains from multiple stakeholders and the use of external data storage.
• Final report.
Condições
The work will be developed at CISUC and will be supervised by a professor of the Information Systems group and other from the Laboratory of Communications and Telematics.
Occasional meetings with industrial partners may be required.
Observações
Thesis supervised by Profs. Vasco Pereira (vasco@dei.uc.pt) and João Barata (barata@dei.uc.pt).
Orientador
Vasco Pereira e João Barata
vasco@dei.uc.pt 📩