Publikation
Demonstrating the Application of Digital Product Memories in a Carbon Footprint Scenario
Alexander Kröner; Gerrit Kahl; Lübomira Spassova; Thomas Feld; Dirk Mayer; Carsten Magerkurth; Ali Dada
In: Vic Callaghan; Achilles Kameas; Simon Egerton; Ichiro Satoh; Michael Weber (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments. International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE-10), July 19-21, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Pages 164-169, ISBN 978-0-7695-4149-5, IEEE Computer Society, 2010.
Zusammenfassung
The carbon footprint is an environment indicator, which is of special interest not only for assessing and optimizing production and logistic processes, but also for addressing a growing interest of customers in the ecologic characteristics of a product. Its computation and processing are tightly bound to research challenges, such as the capturing and exploration of item-level data, and the aggregation of item-level process instances. In this article, we report about a demonstration system, which aims at illustrating visitors of a technology fair how these challenges can be addressed by means of item-level records created from input obtained via smart labels. In a scenario spanning several steps of a product's lifecycle, the system enables the creation and exploitation of these records. During each stage, the system combines item-level data with more general information related, e.g., to the product class and the underlying process model - with the ultimate goal not only to support the assessment of an item's carbon footprint, but also its reduction for future products of the same class.