1. EURIDICE Project Exploiting the concept of Intelligent Cargo
Kostas Kalaboukas
Internet of Things Workshop: Aalborg, May 19-20, 2009

2. Agenda Euridice project at a glance
The intelligent cargo vision and concept
Research opportunities under IoT

3. Euridice at a Glance…

4. The Intelligent Cargo Vision
“In five years time, most of the goods flowing through European freight corridors
will be ‘intelligent’, i.e.: self-aware, context-aware and connected through a
global telecommunication network to support a wide range of information
services for logistic operators, industrial users and public authorities
Source: EURIDICE Project

5. Cargo Intelligence
Self-awareness means the ability of cargo to interact with the surrounding environment to actively notify its presence, identity and requirements.
Context-awareness means intelligent ad hoc combination of information from all the involved stakeholders (shippers, logistic services providers, infrastructures and authorities), based on the current cargo position and status.
Connectivity of moving goods means their constant availability as service consumers or providers by exploiting at need the mobile and fixed network infrastructures available along the route.
Source: EURIDICE Project

6. Cargo intelligent capabilities (1)
Capability
Intelligent Cargo
Self-identification
Global identification provided by public domain services.
Cargo is able to self-identify through a common infrastructure, accessible to field users, vehicles and back-office.
Dynamically selected level of detail (package, pallet, container, ..).
Access to services
Common infrastructure, providing access to services to authorized users or systems interacting with the cargo.
Status monitoring and registering
Status data are available in real time through the service infrastructure.
Status data are contextualized and integrated with the other cargo information services.
Source: EURIDICE Project

7. Cargo intelligent capabilities (2)
Capability
Intelligent Cargo
Independent behavior
Cargo is able to invoke services and start processes autonomously in response to predefined events.
Autonomous decisions (Intelligent agent)
Cargo has decisions making capabilities and is able to choose services to invoke according to circumstances.
Context detection
Context determination provided by public domain services.
Common infrastructure, providing context data (identification details, location, time) to authorized users.
Source: EURIDICE Project

8. From Intelligent Cargo to Internet of Cargo…
Internet of Things:
Things having identities
and virtual personalities
operating in smart spaces
using intelligent interfaces
to connect and communicate
within social, environmental
and user contexts
Intelligent Cargo Capabilities:
Self-identification
Autonomous decisions (Intel. agent)
Status monitoring and registering
Independent behavior
Access to services
Context detection
Source: Internet of Things in 2020
Roadmap for the future, v1.1 – 27 May, 2008
Source: EURIDICE Project

9. Applicability and future research areas - drivers
Monitoring of the whole “product” lifecycle.
Different applications supporting various phases of the “product” lifecycle.
Different open frameworks providing interoperable solutions and services among those applications (e.g. COIN, EURIDICE, GENESIS, etc.)
From decision support systems to intelligent products.
IoT as a broader application to all possible domains

10. Exploiting the concept of Intelligent Cargo to IoT
Tracking/Tracing
Conditions monitoring
Anomaly detection
Fleet optimization
& monitoring
Manufacturer
Cross organization services
eInvoice
eProcurement
After sales service
Shipping Agent
Authority
Reseller
3PL
(Logistic Outsourcer)
Cargo
Owner
Terminal Operator
Carrier
Pricing
Inventory mgt
Material traceability
Anomaly detection
etc.
Inventory mgt.
Distributed
manufacturing
Anomaly detection
Materials traceability
Status/conditions
monitoring
Managing
production process
After sales service
etc.
Consumer/ Customer