Blockchain Value Stream Verification for Transport and Warehouse Flows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for verifying a value stream along a transport route or in a supply chain lack tamper-proofness, making it difficult to ensure accurate tracking and authorization of material and information flows, particularly in pipelines and warehouse stock.
Innovation Solution
A method utilizing distributed ledger or blockchain technology to validate and store data from field devices along a transport route, ensuring tamper-proof verification of value streams by creating and verifying data blocks across participant nodes, with actual data compared to target data to detect unauthorized inflows or outflows, and enabling secure payment and contract management through blockchain-based platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If distributed ledger or blockchain technology is used to verify value streams, then tamper-proofness and reliability are improved, but device complexity and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service platform as an intermediary that mediates between field devices and participant nodes. This platform handles the complex blockchain operations, data validation, and coordination tasks, allowing the core verification system to achieve tamper-proofness without requiring each participant to directly manage the full complexity of blockchain technology. The service platform abstracts and manages the computational and organizational complexity.
2Loss of information
If data from multiple field devices are validated and stored in blockchain, then transparency and traceability are improved, but data processing time and computational energy increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary validation and processing of data at the service platform before data is committed to the blockchain. Field device data is pre-validated, aggregated, and prepared in advance, reducing the computational burden during the actual blockchain writing process. This preliminary action ensures transparency and traceability while minimizing real-time processing delays.
3Reliability
If blockchain technology is implemented for value stream verification, then security against data manipulation is improved, but implementation cost and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the blockchain implementation into distinct functional layers: field devices that generate data, a service platform that manages blockchain operations, and participant nodes that validate and store data. This segmentation allows organizations to implement blockchain verification without requiring complete overhaul of existing infrastructure, as each component can be introduced and integrated independently, reducing overall implementation complexity and cost.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a method for verifying a value stream along a transport route, wherein a plurality of field devices, each having at least one sensor and/or actuator for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable and an electronic unit, are arranged along the transport route and generate corresponding data, or for verifying the value stream of at least one product in warehouse stock, wherein a first service platform is used, via which a plurality of participant nodes each with at least one database have a communication connection to one another according to a distributed ledger or blockchain technology.