Digital Supply Chain
Backs space-enabled digital solutions for tracking sensitive and food supply chains.
Digital Supply Chain is a European Space Agency Open Competition that backs space-enabled digital solutions for tracking sensitive and food supply chains — using satellite communications, navigation and Earth observation together with big data, AI and IoT to give end-to-end visibility over goods such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, medical equipment, and perishable or dangerous cargo, with a specifi…
ESA wants proposals that use satellite communications, navigation and Earth observation together with big data, AI and IoT to give end-to-end visibility over supply chains carrying sensitive goods -- pharmaceuticals, vaccines, medical equipment, and perishable or dangerous cargo. Food supply chain traceability is a specific focus, aimed at catching disease jumps from animal to human earlier.
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