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Article: A Blockchain-IoT Platform for the Smart Pallet Pooling Management

TitleA Blockchain-IoT Platform for the Smart Pallet Pooling Management
Authors
Keywordsdecentralisation
pallet pooling
blockchain
Internet of things
technological eco-system
Issue Date2021
PublisherMolecular Diversity Preservation International. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.net/sensors
Citation
Sensors, 2021, v. 21 n. 18, p. article no. 6310 How to Cite?
AbstractPallet management as a backbone of logistics and supply chain activities is essential to supply chain parties, while a number of regulations, standards and operational constraints are considered in daily operations. In recent years, pallet pooling has been unconventionally advocated to manage pallets in a closed-loop system to enhance the sustainability and operational effectiveness, but pitfalls in terms of service reliability, quality compliance and pallet limitation when using a single service provider may occur. Therefore, this study incorporates a decentralisation mechanism into the pallet management to formulate a technological eco-system for pallet pooling, namely Pallet as a Service (PalletaaS), raised by the foundation of consortium blockchain and Internet of things (IoT). Consortium blockchain is regarded as the blockchain 3.0 to facilitate more industrial applications, except cryptocurrency, and the synergy of integrating a consortium blockchain and IoT is thus investigated. The corresponding layered architecture is proposed to structure the system deployment in the industry, in which the location-inventory-routing problem for pallet pooling is formulated. To demonstrate the values of this study, a case analysis to illustrate the human–computer interaction and pallet pooling operations is conducted. Overall, this study standardises the decentralised pallet management in the closed-loop mechanism, resulting in a constructive impact to sustainable development in the logistics industry.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/308522
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2023 Impact Factor: 3.4
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.786
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dc.contributor.authorWu, CH-
dc.contributor.authorTsang, YP-
dc.contributor.authorLee, CKM-
dc.contributor.authorChing, WK-
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-01T07:54:27Z-
dc.date.available2021-12-01T07:54:27Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationSensors, 2021, v. 21 n. 18, p. article no. 6310-
dc.identifier.issn1424-8220-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/308522-
dc.description.abstractPallet management as a backbone of logistics and supply chain activities is essential to supply chain parties, while a number of regulations, standards and operational constraints are considered in daily operations. In recent years, pallet pooling has been unconventionally advocated to manage pallets in a closed-loop system to enhance the sustainability and operational effectiveness, but pitfalls in terms of service reliability, quality compliance and pallet limitation when using a single service provider may occur. Therefore, this study incorporates a decentralisation mechanism into the pallet management to formulate a technological eco-system for pallet pooling, namely Pallet as a Service (PalletaaS), raised by the foundation of consortium blockchain and Internet of things (IoT). Consortium blockchain is regarded as the blockchain 3.0 to facilitate more industrial applications, except cryptocurrency, and the synergy of integrating a consortium blockchain and IoT is thus investigated. The corresponding layered architecture is proposed to structure the system deployment in the industry, in which the location-inventory-routing problem for pallet pooling is formulated. To demonstrate the values of this study, a case analysis to illustrate the human–computer interaction and pallet pooling operations is conducted. Overall, this study standardises the decentralised pallet management in the closed-loop mechanism, resulting in a constructive impact to sustainable development in the logistics industry.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherMolecular Diversity Preservation International. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.net/sensors-
dc.relation.ispartofSensors-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectdecentralisation-
dc.subjectpallet pooling-
dc.subjectblockchain-
dc.subjectInternet of things-
dc.subjecttechnological eco-system-
dc.titleA Blockchain-IoT Platform for the Smart Pallet Pooling Management-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailChing, WK: wching@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityChing, WK=rp00679-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/s21186310-
dc.identifier.pmid34577516-
dc.identifier.pmcidPMC8469887-
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dc.identifier.hkuros330476-
dc.identifier.volume21-
dc.identifier.issue18-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 6310-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 6310-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000701714400001-
dc.publisher.placeSwitzerland-

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