by Britta Scherer | 9. February 2021 | Knowledge Nugget, News and events
More than a decade ago, scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML created the vision of a future-oriented logistics system: Intelligent devices should learn to think and goods should be able to self-organize their way to reach their...
by Britta Scherer | 2. February 2021 | Knowledge Nugget, News and events
Without blockchain, there is no business, as the media say. The basis for this are the so-called “smart contracts”. The term was first used in 1993/94. It is smart because it can be processed automatically and, in the future, autonomously. These are not...
by Britta Scherer | 25. January 2021 | Knowledge Nugget, News and events
The term blockchain can literally be explained as a chain of blocks. A blockchain is a continuously expandable list of data records, the so-called “blocks”, which are linked together using cryptographic methods. Each block typically contains an encrypted...
by Britta Scherer | 19. January 2021 | Knowledge Nugget
In the broadest sense, the platform economy could be described as Internet-based business models, namely digital marketplaces that bring providers and customers together. Transaction costs are low, and prices and quality are transparent. So far, the term describes...
by Britta Scherer | 19. November 2020 | News and events, The Ten
With the blockchain-enabled IOT device, scientists from the innovation ecosystem of the Graduate School of Logistics presented a pioneering prototype for monitoring temperature-sensitive goods such as food, medicines or vaccines along global supply chains. It is the...
