CodeIT, Sone 4 and Chalmers Industriteknik awarded EUREKA Eurostars funding to develop a user-friendly traceability system for wild fisheries to secure product quality and legality against new industry requirements.
Solving traceability
The EU is intensifying efforts to ensure the sustainability and traceability of seafood products while preventing illegal and unreported fishing. New policies and goals for circular economy such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and the Digital Product Passport (DPP) will improve the circularity and environmental sustainability of products and facilitate the free movement of goods within the EU. Yet, these initiatives require full traceability of products entering the EU market and easy-to-use electronic reporting and monitoring tools that are reliable and verifiable.
To satisfy this unmet need, the TRACELAND project aims to design, develop, and validate Legal Landing: an innovative, user-friendly, and end-to-end traceability solution for wild fisheries. CodeIT - Nordic traceability and production automation experts; Sone 4 - software architecture, programming, and automation experts; and Chalmers Industriteknik - applied AI and circular economy experts, have teamed up to develop a solution that will secure EU market demands for product quality, sustainability, legality, and supply chain transparency within the fish industry. The project, with a duration of 2.5 years and an 814,000 euro budget, will assist in rapidly and seamlessly adopting new regulatory requirements for all types of fisheries and reception facilities, small or big, while enhancing transparency and efficiency. Legal Landing will be built in a versatile and adaptable manner, capable of meeting unique traceability needs of different company sizes and industry sectors.
TRACELAND’s solution will leverage common product language (GS1 standards), the DPP, private blockchain technology, and robust cybersecurity measures. It also integrates Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, weather statistics, geofence technology for precise fish capture location, and receiving point cameras for automated weighting on the scale display, even when using existing available (old) equipment. The unique features of Legal Landing are:
- Scalable to different sizes and types of fisheries, vessel locations, and landing facilities.
- User-friendly providing a low threshold and easy data access to all stakeholders such as fishermen, processors, distributors, consumers, and regulators.
- Lowest environmental impact regarding manufacturing and installation.
- Long-lasting robust hardware – even for harsh marine conditions.
- Robust cybersecurity and transparent records.
- Open interface easy to integrate with e.g., authorities systems. The project will thus transform the drawbacks of a traditional supply chain to become a fully transparent and traceable one while maximizing efficiency and effectiveness.
The project website has been launched and is hosted at Chalmers Industriteknik (TRACELAND - Innovative traceability project in fisheries - Chalmers Industriteknik).
Eurostars - coordinated by Eureka, the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation - is the largest funding program for SMEs aiming to create innovative products, processes, or services for commercialization. TRACELAND was selected during the Eurostars-3, Call 6 that closed March 2024 and it is co-financed by the national budgets of each partner’s state, via The Research Council of Norway and Vinnova from Sweden, as well as by the European Union.
About our partners:
www.codeitworldwide.com
CodeIT focus is providing innovative solutions for food, fish, wood, and industry sectors. The company helps manufacturers worldwide to leverage their data to solve traceability and achieve new levels of process automation and live production monitoring, generating value and driving sustainability. With over 20 years of shop floor experience, CodeIT has participated in several R&D projects, both nationally and internationally, to develop cutting-edge technologies and products and share its knowledge and expertise with its customers and partners. The company is part of the Norwegian Centers of Expertise, NECIA Technology Cluster, GS1 Norway and the Circular Packaging Cluster.
www.chalmersindustriteknik.se/en
Chalmers Industriteknik, a research and development organization, was established in 1984 by Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) to facilitate collaboration between researchers and the business community and to promote innovation. Chalmers specialize in connecting research and industry and helping organizations turn their research into practical solutions for tomorrow’s societal benefits and a sustainable future. The aim is to avoid innovative ideas to getting unrealized by closing the gap between research and industry. Efforts are concentrated on five main areas: Digitalisation, Circular Economy, Sustainable Energy, Life Science, and Advanced Materials. Chalmers has a team of over 100 experts, half of whom hold PhDs, working together to create technologies, products, and services grounded in the latest knowledge and technological advances from the research world.
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