C3.3 Benefits of developing for the iCargo platform

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Intelligent Cargo in Efficient and SustainableGlobal Logistics Operations

Benefits of developing for

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iCargo is a large-scale integrating project co-funded by the European Commission within the FP7 Information and Communication Technologies Work Programme. iCargo involves representatives of the main stakeholders in the areas of research and technological development, logistics companies, shippers and public authorities. The 29 partners coming from 13 countries are coordinated by the Research and Innovation Hub of ATOS Spain.

iCargo will design and implement a decentralized ICT infrastructure allowing real world objects, new planning services including CO2 calculation capabilities and existing systems to co-exist and efficiently co-operate at an affordable cost for logistics stakeholders.

The iCargo project aims at supporting new logistics services that: ₋ Synchronize vehicle movements and logistics operations across various modes and actors to lower CO2

emissions₋ Adapt to changing conditions through dynamic planning methods involving intelligent cargo, vehicle and

infrastructure systems and ₋ Combine services, resources and information from different stakeholders, taking part in an open freight

management ecosystem.



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Ben HodgsonSenior Scientist- BMT Group

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1. Brief overview of iCargo from a developers perspective

2. The business opportunity

- Trend towards ICT services in logistics

- Trend towards collaborative business models

- Why closed platforms are not the way forward

3. Developing your application with iCargo

3.1. The difficulties of developing logistics applications.

3.2. Standardised communication

- Access point

- Cloud service bus

- Distributed discovery

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The problem

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Factory Shipment In-city delivery

Long haul transport

Road transport Warehouse Storage

Customer delivery

information flow

Supply chains are managed using multiple, often disparate applications with no or limited means to optimize and control centrally



What we want

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Horizontal information flow

Shift in paradigm: from process into “thing” oriented



Thing orientated “Digital shadows”

Real world

Virtual presence

Thing orientated “Digital shadows”

Services Services Services

ID

YIDID

ID

ID

ID



• Nowadays, only large companies can afford to implement dedicated gateways to enable their ERP systems to exchange information with each other. Therefore the need arises for a flexible way of connecting systems to realize connections on the basis of trusted business agreements in a matter of days instead of development projects of months.




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Focus on getting and updating and reacting to information about entities such as cargo and vehicles held by trusted business partners defined on the basis of a cooperation agreement.





• Installation an Access Point and register your organisation.

• Publication & discovery of business services..

• Establish Cooperation Agreements which specify what information shall be exchanged as notifications

• Transport order defines involved entities.

• Information about entities is automatically exchanged



Entities: Represent things.

Like Objects in object orientated programming

These can be physical objects like containers, parcels, trucks, cranes, trains …. Or they can be other business level things like agreements…..




Entities: structure

You can find entities and depending on your authorization. Get or change their information. Just like a NoSQL database.

IDAliasOwnerClassRelationsStateData




Semantic: models

Semantic models define the schema of concepts

Like class definitions .




Facts: information about an entity

You can update information about an entity by providing a fact. Facts are stamped with source and time avoiding locks and versioning conflicts.

SubjectSourceContentTimestampStatePlaceValue




Entities: Create, Search, Update, Delete

You can find entities and depending on your authorization. Get or change their information. Just like a NoSQL database.

Like a shared NoSQL database




Entity API: Create, Search, Update, Delete






Access points form a P2P network where requests are routed to peer which hold the entity or service. Only information that you want to share will be

exchanged.

ID={}

GET /<index of entity>

Authentication, to validate the identity a

user or service. It shall be based on existing

open standards and existing

implementations. If authentic, then the next

step is to check authorisation;



Why iCargo


A company has access via their Access Point to the iCargo ecosystem.Via "your" Access Point you can search for other logistic service providers and software services.

ID={}


Routing, to send the incoming information and

requests to the applicable internal or external

services.





Access points form a P2P network where requests are routed to peer which hold the entity or service. Only information that you want to share will be

exchanged.

ID={}


Authorisation, to determine who can access

which information. The security model is

described below. If authorised then the next step

is to dispatch the requested action via routing;




Logistics cloud bus: publish subscribe

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Entities publish can publish and subscribe to channels. For example An LSC might also declare an interest in ETA and ATA

{

“entity_id” :<entity_id>,

“entity_type” : “GPS sensor” “location_format” : “GPS”,

“location” : “40.45305, -3.68960”, “update ” :

“20/05/1979 16:45 GMT”,

“time_format” : “DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM”

}

Publish

POST <AP>/entity/<entity_type>/<entity_id>/channel/<channel_id>/publish

Subscribe

GET <AP>/entity/<entity_type>/<entity_id>/channel/<channel_id/subscription




The role and purpose of a Cooperation Agreement is crucial and should be

explained first.Not only contains a Cooperation Agreement information about

authorisation, also the subscriptions are defined there too.



• The Logistic Cloud Bus implements a pub/sub pattern to allow fully decoupled developments.

• pub/sub mechanism is provided by an AMQP broker.

• The LCB exposes an interface and SDK to allow easy developments without caring about AMQP protocol.– You just publish and others are subscribed.




• How to get a channel with the GUI

• Programmatically way


Create a ChannelCreate an entity

http://lcb.herokuapp.com/public/doc/html/apidoc/channels/channelsdoc.html



• And then you can do pub/sub over that channels

Communication between entities




The virtual service point shall be able to grant usage or access to a functional domain based on the identification of an actor and the role of that actor.




Smart objects: rules

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A rule consists of a condition and a capability to be executed when the condition is applicable. Some objects can react to events either as simple filters or triggering business rules based on complex event processing.

WHEN Container.state EQUALS "onTrip" FOLLOWED-BY

Contain--

er.event EQUALS "door open" AND

(cargo.currentLocation !EQUALS Container.destination) WITHIN 8 hours

ACTION Alert Cargo.logisticServiceProvider

Like the Actor Model + CEP

“NOTIFY logistic service provider WHEN temperature OF tuna IS ABOVE 7

degrees Celsius”

The rule language is not part of the iCargo specification but may be implemented as CEP, or a DSL




Registry: business services




Registry: find business servicesRegistries provide information about participants in the Ecosystem

(companies/access points and their services)

Business Service description

Organisationdescription

iCargoRegistry

provides

contains contains

service description

service metadata

organisation description

organisation metadata

registrymetadata




Registry: Find companies

Syntax<PATH TO THE REGISTRY>/business?<CLASSIFICATIONSCHEME>=<VALUE>

ExampleTo find all companies with UNSPSC Code 78100000 (mail and cargo

transport):GET icargoregistry.mycompany.com/business?UNSPSC=78100000

*This is likely to return a very large list of companies. The Registry might warn the user about that and/or return only a subset of the results. It is recommended that further classification (‘filtering’)

is used, for example using geographical coverage criteria.




Registry: Search for business services

Syntax<PATH TO THE REGISTRY>/service?<CLASSIFICATIONSCHEME>=<VALUE>

ExampleTo find all services (and their providers) under the UNSPSC classification Code

78100000 (mail and cargo transport):

GET icargoregistry.mycompany.com/service?UNSPSC=78100000




Registry: Get information about a serviceRegistries provide information about participants in the Ecosystem

(companies/access points and their services)

Syntax<PATH TO THE REGISTRY>/serviceinfo/<SERVICEID>

*you can query any registry to get information about services even from different registries

Example Assume express24.dhl.com is a unique identifier for the Express 24 service of DHL. The following

GET icargoregistry.somecompany.com/serviceinfo/express24.dhl.com

Returns information about the service (as an XML, JSON etc.), for example{“service type” : “courier”,

“Provider id” : “DHL”,“web site”: “http://www.dhl.com/en/express.html”,

…}




Semantic Gateway: access external systemsA Semantic Gateway is an extension of an Access Point with the capability to translate business messages into

the terminology of the recipient with use of a Semantic model that is specific for an organisation or the

recipient in general.



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Stop caring about integrating with different web services, where information is kept and even who has information.

Instead focus on getting and updating and reacting to information about entities such as cargo and vehicles

Expose and find business services – logistics, software ….

Decentralized platform for interacting cooperative services.




Ben HodgsonSenior Scientist – BMT Group

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Credits:

Presented by: Ben Hodgson (BMT Group)[email protected]

Material: Ben Hodgson (BMT Group)



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