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WATSON Project Officially Started
š¹The kick-off meeting of WATSON took place at University College Dublin on 13-14 March 2023. About 70 participants from 44 project partners and 19 countries attended the meeting, discussing the tasksā objectives and expected outcomes, as well as the next steps of the project.
šWATSON is an ambitious HORIZON project aiming to prevent fraud in food supply chains through digital and intelligence-based technologies.
šIndustrial Engineering Laboratory NTUA is responsible for tasks concerning the deployment of the blockchain in food supply chains and the requirements analysis of the platform to combat fraud in various value chains, including wine, olive oil, honey, meat, fish, cereals, and diaries.
š¹Nikolaos Panayiotou and Sotiris Gayialis attended the meeting, presenting NTUA's tasks, discussing work to be done, and preparing the next steps and collaborations.
Forty-four partners, nineteen countries, seven value chains ā wine, olive oil, honey, meat, fish, cereals, dairy ā all squeezed into one requirements analysis. Whoever inherits that mapping, a national food authority or a team weighing the AI tools that work best for entity resolution, gets a picture of where fraud vocabulary diverges. For honey and fish, that divergence is the whole problem.
Seven value chains, one requirements analysis ā how does that hold when honey fraud is syrup at the barrel and fish fraud is species substitution at the dock? NTUA's wine and olive oil work shares almost no data fields with cereals. Even sorting supplier names, like untangling a grow-a-garden value listĀ where every seed has three spellings, outran the immutable ledger. Who signs off on that mapping?
Six dairies, one shared ledger, and the fraud still happened at the collection point ā the milk changed hands before anyone wrote a block. The 44 partners' seven value chains share that gap: traceability isn't the bottleneck, input trust is. Reconciling supplier name variants across two systems ate more time than the immutable log ever saved, and a worksheet generator for tracing namesĀ would have cut it to an afternoon.
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