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Research Project
DCoT: Digital Chain of Trust
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A research project enabling new paradigms for the traceability of transactions leveraging Blockchain technology.
Where: international
Where: international
Challenge
In complex business processes, ensuring accountability is crucial. An effective solution is the "chain of custody," a documented sequence of property transfers. In open business environments without a central authority, implementing this solution is challenging. The challenge lies in ensuring the reliability and traceability of transactions without a centralized ledger.
Approach
DCoT -"Digital Chain of Trust” is a decentralized system based on Blockchain technology that allows groups of fully autonomous business entities to collaboratively maintain a common log of events related to chain-of-custody processes. Such log is verifiable, tamper-resistant and highly-available, so that it is an enabler of trust between parties.
Digital Ecosystem
Solution
Digital Ecosystem
Through the DCoT solution, every chain-of-custody event within the Blockchain ledger is digitally signed, timestamped, and connected to the digital identities of both the entities engaged in the transaction and the transferred asset. While the information on the former is also maintained on the public ledger, data related to the latter may be confidential or subject to GDPR constraints: to address privacy and confidentiality concerns in the proper way, the DCoT system keeps asset-related data in a separate, cloud-based repository where it is protected through attribute-based encryption.
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Higher reliability, higher security
Reduced costs
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End-to-end modernization and management of hybrid IT environments.
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End-to-end solutions to anticipate threats, protect data, identities, and digital infrastructures, and ensure AI systems remain secure and governable throughout their entire lifecycle.
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What it is and how to leverage it for business.
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ARIEN: an AI platform to support the fight against illegal drug trafficking
A holistic approach based on artificial intelligence tools for monitoring the production and illegal trafficking of drugs.
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Research Project
TEMA – Accurate Mapping and Forecasting for Emergency Management
Advanced Technologies and Tools for Natural Disaster Management (NDM)
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Case Study
Brescia: Sustainable Mobility Becomes a Game
An app to encourage sustainable behaviors by promoting the use of public and private transport, as well as private and shared bicycles for commuting.
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Research Project
ARIEN: an AI platform to support the fight against illegal drug trafficking
A holistic approach based on artificial intelligence tools for monitoring the production and illegal trafficking of drugs.
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