Smart Logistics: Blockchain trends and applications

Abstract

The recent increase of new technologies and their involvement into all management processes call into question the smart logistics current models, in which massive amounts of data is collected and controlled. Smart Logistics is considered as fundamental pillar of the 4th industrial revolution 'industry 4.0'. This revolution is based on different concepts including the blockchain technology. Blockchain remains one of the buzzwords in the technological world. So that all sectors are focus on concrete use cases. However, few actors can boast of having devised revolutionary solutions. For good reasons, blockchain technology is still very complex to understand. The purpose of this study is to define the various applications of Blockchain in Smart Logistics, as well as to present concrete examples of these applications. This work was done by classifying the applications according to four clusters: Information, Transport, Finance, and Management, in addition to presenting the applications of each cluster.

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“…• to carry out their reconfiguration, taking into account the requirements for transportation and storage of a wide range of industrial goods (materials, workpieces, components and complete products, finished products and goods, materials and components for the assembly, operation, repair and disposal of technological equipment, etc. ), including multi-IRT for road transport or containers; • to use both transportation within the cluster (cranes, freight elevators and light or e-trucks, rail, marine and air transport, cranes, freight elevators, and trucks) and multimodal and intermodal transportation (containers, trucks, rail, marine, and air transport); • to carry out the certification, identification, and monitoring of IRTs in real time due to the presence of an appropriate recording device (token) for SSC management (SSCM) realization [34] using connectivity based on the Manufacturing 4.0 principles of IoT, radio-frequency identification (RFID), LoRa (long range), etc. [35,36].…”

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“…Moreover, if this information is kept encrypted, its confidentiality can be guaranteed. Therefore, its use can be applied, among others, to the economy, health, and IoT [77][78][79].…”