SMART DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION

Smart Distribution and Consumption is about helping consumers to obtain better information on the goods they purchase, and producers to better control the flow of their goods to the consumer, covering three use case trials:

• Meat Information Provenance – ensuring that consumers, regulators and meat supply chain participants all have accurate information concerning where a meat product originated (production farm) and how it was affected by its distribution (quality assurance).
• Import and Export of Consumer Goods – the intelligent management of inbound materials to a production site and the smart distribution of finished goods to consumers.
• Tailored Information for Consumers – the provisioning of accurate information to individual consumer's needs and feedback of this information to the producers.

Most of the trials are related to global supply chain that are therefore difficult to pinpoint on a map. Nevertheless, Figure 3 provides a map of the physical trial locations that are most directly involved.

We are aware that – due to the FI PPP timing – it is crucial for the success of the project to provide an early release of specifications and technical interfaces of FIspace. By doing so we can ensure that domain specific apps will be developed and made available in the FIspace app store, thus facilitating the involvement of interested domain players outside the consortium in the development of apps so that a self-supporting ecosystem is established.