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The food and agribusiness is an important sector in European logistics with a share in the EU road transport of about 20 %. One of the main logistic challenges in this sector is to deal with the high dynamics and uncertainty in supply and demand. This paper defines requirements on Future Internet (FI) technologies that have to be met to accomplish the specific challenges of agri-food logistics. It identifies a set of generic technical enablers as input for the realisation of a FI core platform. This technology foundation is to be developed and tested in a Future Internet public–private partnership (FI-PPP) environment of over 150 organisations.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement n 285 326. The authors greatly acknowledge the involved individuals and companies for their support. In particular our gratitude goes to Michael van Bekkum (TNO), Adrie Beulens (Wageningen University), Yann Cassing (SGS), Marta Fontseré (Bon Preu), Elena Mansilla (SGS), Eloi Montcada (Bon Preu), Joan Sabartés (Bon Preu), Angela Schillings-Schmitz (GS1), Ralph Troeger (GS1), and Nikola Vucic (Huawei).
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Verdouw, C.N., Sundmaeker, H., Meyer, F., Wolfert, J., Verhoosel, J. (2013). Smart Agri-Food Logistics: Requirements for the Future Internet. In: Kreowski, HJ., Scholz-Reiter, B., Thoben, KD. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35966-8_20
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