Federated Platforms for Seamless Interoperability in the Physical Internet
conference paper
Interoperability in logistics is a prerequisite for the Physical Internet. Real time data sharing including sensor data (IoT – Internet of Things) creates situational awareness, supply chain visibility and is required for transactions. There have been lots of efforts to solve the interoperability problem, e.g. the construction of data models and particular technology to share data, but it has not yet resulted in an open, federated solution. Applications still have to be adapted to integrate with specific platforms, creating a vendor lock in. Only with additional costs, these applications can be connected to other platforms. This paper will argue that to solve this challenge, three aspects have to be solved, namely (1) uniform services provided by all platforms to applications, (2) federation of these platforms, and (3) semantic models that can be shared by reference. The paper contributes solutions to seamless interoperability identified as one of the cornerstones for the Physical Internet.
TNO Identifier
745727
Source title
2nd International Physical Internet Conference, Mines ParisTech, Paris, 2015
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