SmartContainers: A way to take food from suppliers to consumers

stazhao (61)in #bitcoin • 6 years ago

Most industries work like this, a company works as the supplier, then there’s a distributor, and finally there’s a consumer. Blockchain is making it possible to cut out distributors and as much as possible so that the supplier and the consumer are directly linked. SmartContainers is using blockchain technology and IoT technology to change the way the food industry works.

A long time ago, the food industry was direct trade from farmers to village people. The world has gotten a lot bigger now so now the food industry actually has many people in the middle. You have importers, wholesalers, retailers, and sometimes even supply agents. That’s a lot of people in the middle and that makes the price go sky high compared to what the farmer actually gets. SmartContainers wants to experiment with taking food directly to the consumer.

A big barrier in taking food directly to the consumer is that food would get spoiled. Retailers are able to store it in safe environments till some one comes and buys it. Big transportation companies are able to afford temperature-controlled deliveries to make sure the food gets safely to the retailers. SmartContainers wants to change this through its amazing container technology. The company’s containers work really well at keeping the temperature at the needed temperature and the unique material used to make them can let sizing be reduced enough to make deliveries to a single house. The company is using IoT technology so it becomes possible to track so many micro deliveries. Since all this data can be too much to keep track off, the company will use blockchain to make everything transparent and to make sure smart contracts automate a lot of the data processing.

SmartContainers is going to use blockchain technology to also make all the transactions needed in making so many deliveries easy and transparent. This will make sure that data does not get lost or payments do not get mixed up the in the massive amount of micro deliveries that would be needed in making deliveries from supplier to consumers. Technology has made the world move forward from villages but now it can maybe take us back to how food used to be bought back then. SmartContainers is going to use technology to take food from food supplier to consumer.