NGS is one of the winner of DITECFER Railway Innovation Contest 2022
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- Aug, 23, 2022
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The NGS solution called TrackOne has selected as one of the best innovation in the DITECFER Railway Innovation Contest 2022.
TrackOne is a vertical solution from the field toward the Cloud based on proprietary technologies capable to enable the complete visibility of the whole supply chain, toward the optimisation both first/last mile logistics leg, as well as cargo. In fact, it is capable to identify, characterise (weight and size, supporting the consolidation operations), track, trace and monitor your goods from the sender facility toward the receiver. The base of the solution is the smart logistics unit that allows to provide an identity to smaller granularity logistic units (arriving at the items level), specialising the monitoring purposes: a pallet of wine bottles and a pallet of paper need different parameter to be considered. The asset (basket, pallet, …) is considered reusable and connected, thus supporting circular economy and asset management paradigms. The openness of its IoT environment, support the integration of added value IoT devices improving the monitoring specialisation (e.g., capable to monitor the Ethylene concentration, thus preventing the fruit ripening process). For these reasons TrackOne with its specialised monitoring can be essential for guaranteeing an improved security on transporting and storaging perishable goods (e.g., fruit and food), enabling a trusted and standardised data sharing with all the stakeholders involved in the supply chain, thus improving customer satisfaction. In fact, TrackOne Cloud component is a scalable and proactive SaaS solution capable to manage different types of devices (also by third parties), to aggregate features and generate events (e.g., bumps, threshold exceedance, …) to populate a blockchain trusted ledger. Such a ledger can be also exploited to store added value documents (e.g., invoices, transport slips, …) toward their dematerialisation.
The TrackOne solution by NGS
Smart Logistics unit
Connected and sensorised logistics units based on active (or passive) and secure device. Logistics units' identification exploiting GS1 codes.
Standardised identification using GS1 codes
Barcodes and QRcodes reading with handheld device for connecting goods with the smart logistics units. GS1 coding for all the logistics items.
Dedicated and configurable monitoring
Paper and wines require different monitoring features! Possibility to integrate added value sensors, as ethylene for fruit.
Tracking and tracing and monitoring service thought for intermodal logistics
Complete goods oriented visibility of the supply chain, since each logistics unit is identified, tracked, traced and monitored.
Proactive Cloud application
All the information are collected, managed, stored, processed and visualised at the Cloud side in a scalable and proactive manner. Easy to use Web Interface.
Proactive feature extraction
On line computation to extract added value feature to support real time decision making. Proactive alarms triggering.
Goods characterisation
Weight and size measurements integrated in the system. Perfect for perishable goods logistics and groupage services.
Circular economy and asset management
Connected logistics assets (e.g., pallets or baskets) can be managed and reused. Fleet management service.
Secure, ad-hoc and standardised access
Ad-hoc access to the users exploiuting secure and standardised (GS1 EPCIS 2.0) protocols.
Trusted and secure data sharing
Data are threated in a secure manner from the premise toward the Cloud. Sharing of important events and documents exploting a blockchain ledger. Logistics transparency and document dematerialisation.
Logistics optimisation. Greener logistics. Cost reduction
Exploiting the visibility feature the logistics transactions can be optimised and improved, reducing costs, improving the security and the costumers' satisfaction, toward a greener and transparent logistics.
Trains consolidation support
Wagons' consolidation and freight trains' creation support. Automatic detection and dedicated goods control.
The TrackOne solution is developed and tested within the Horizon 2020 project called PLANET.
PLANET addresses the challenges of assessing the impact of emerging global trade corridors on the TEN-T network and ensuring effective integration of the European to the Global Network by focusing in two key R&D pillars.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement No. 860274