Titulo Estágio
Biographies of things using blockchain – a use case for a sustainable and circular textile industry
Áreas de especialidade
Sistemas de Informação
Comunicações, Serviços e Infraestruturas
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 in the textile industry, contributing to the creation of a “Digital Product Passport for textiles”, an EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles.
Objetivo
The work to be done under this proposal has two main objectives:
- Study of the application of blockchain as a support technology to enable the creation of a Digital Product Passport for textiles;
- Development of a generic platform prototype to support the biography of textiles, using blockchain.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
1) Study of the state-of-the-art of product biographies, and its application on the textile industry.
2) Study of blockchain and supporting tools.
3) Design of a generic platform to support the biography of things using blockchain.
Work results of the semester:
• Initial design of a generic platform to support biographies of textiles using blockchain.
• Intermediate report.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
4) Development of a working prototype of a platform to support a Digital Product Passport for textiles.
5) Tests and validation.
6) Writing of the final report.
Work results of the semester:
• Platform to support a Digital Product Passport for textiles.
• 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.
This work proposal is presented together with CELBI, SA, an ALTRI company, primarily engaged in the production and trade of short fiber paper pulp of high quality, from eucalyptus, being one of the most efficient producers in Europe, and wants to explore other possible markets.
Observações
Occasional visits to CELBI based in Leirosa, 15km south of Figueira da Foz, may be required, with expenses supported.
Thesis supervised by Profs. Vasco Pereira and João Barata
Orientador
Vasco Pereira e João Barata
vasco@dei.uc.pt 📩