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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Blockchain-IoT Platform for the Smart Pallet Pooling Management.

Chun-Ho Wu, Yung-Po Tsang, Carman Ka-Man Lee, Wai-Ki Ching

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Chun-Ho WuDepartment of Supply Chain and Information Management, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0003-1259-4048
Yung-Po TsangDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0002-6128-345X
Carman Ka-Man LeeDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0001-8577-4547
Wai-Ki ChingDepartment of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.

Funding

Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee 700005Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee UGC/FDS14/E06/20
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pallet 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.

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BlockchainInternet of ThingsHumansReproducibility of Resultsblockchaindecentralisationhuman–computer interactionInternet of thingspallet poolingtechnological eco-system

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PMID34577516
PMCPMC8469887

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