EURIDICE

Description

To build an information services platform centred on the individual cargo item and on its interaction with the surrounding environment and the user.
The project is built upon the Intelligent Cargo (IC) concept.
Door-to-door cargo tracking,
Reporting to customs and other authorities,
Intelligent cargo in emergency situations, and
Reconciling long term transport planning with short-term execution.
Services are combined for global telecommunication services to support a wide range of information services.
Immediate proximity of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagged cargo item.
Cargo improving and integrating service - oriented architectures incorporating mobile technologies.
Advanced technologies- vehicle and user IDs with automatically detected conditions, semantic web and domain ontologies, for automated discovery of services associated to any specific cargo item.
Position and status of cargo; distributed intelligent agents, for optimisation, anomaly and threat detection (alerting) and decisions support.

Objectives

Supporting the interaction of individual cargo items with the surrounding environment and users in the field.
Improving logistic performances through application of the intelligent cargo concept and technologies in the working practices of operators and industrial users
Developing collaborative business models to sustain, promote and develop an intelligent cargo infrastructure
Realising more secure and environment friendly transport chains through the adoption of intelligent cargo to support modal shift and door-to-door inter-modal services.

Erudice as a platform

Project input:

Necessary training material for a successfully introduction of the Intelligent Cargo Concept.
Information about the cargo – the information of the cargo including date, time, shipment number, shipment method, type of cargo etc, which is used to make the cloud network. This data will utilized for different operations.
Smart sensors in vehicles and infrastructures – the sensors in the vehicle and infrastructure is used for real time tracking, monitoring, traffic information etc.
Cloud database for storing/sharing technology services.

Assets

Cloud network – where all the information about the cargo is shared among the different logistic operators.

Struggles

Safety – the information shared in the network cloud should promise safety so that the information is not misused.
Cost – as the project includes many sensors for vehicles and infrastructures the cost may go very high making it difficult to implement.

Improvements:

Architectures incorporating mobile technologies - Although several well-known enterprise architecture frameworks are used by enterprises, it is apparent that there is no industry standard available to enable an enterprise to transform its business processes to incorporate mobile technologies to advantage.

Project output

The project built a platform enabling cargo items to interact with systems and users along the logistic chain. It has shown, through various industrial demonstrators, how this enables faster, more efficient and environment-friendly freight transport.

Other results

Eight pilot scenarios have been selected to test the EURIDICE infrastructure and technologies on real cases, with the aim of demonstrating the Intelligent Cargo concept and its advantages.

Active cold-chain monitoring;
Cargo controlling transportation in 3PL services to final customer;
Cooperative warehousing through cargo-centric information services;
Self-returning empty pallets and boxes;
Cargo-assisted intermodal transport;
Intelligent routing through cargo-infrastructure cooperation;
Automated clearance and billing of transiting goods.

Related Projects:

FREIGHTWISE, INTEGRITY, KOMODA, SMARTFREIGHT and SMART-CM.

Project Status

Funding: European (7th RTD Framework Programme)

Duration: 02/08 - 10/11

Status: Complete with results

Transport modes: Multimodal transport

Transport sectors: Freight transport