On Thursday local time, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published the patent application documents filed by Walmart in October last year. The document revealed that automatic delivery vehicles connected through blockchain technology will be applied in Wal-Marts logistics distribution.
According to the patent document, Wal-Mart will use blockchain technology to connect automatic delivery vehicles, and set the customers home as an authorized access area. These automatic delivery vehicles can enter the restricted area such as the customers home to complete the package. The delivery service is expected to shorten the delivery time to within 1 day. Although many of the applications in Wal-Marts patents do not mention the technology themselves, this line of Wal-Marts patents provides a solution on how to access authentication-based and encrypted places through technical means.
The patent also shows that the blockchain distributed network can also be applied to logistics tracking and commodity verification. Customers will purchase goods through private or public identity verification keys. When the purchase behavior occurs, the system will generate new blocks in the original root block. These newly generated blocks include commodity purchase time, delivery time data, and Key information, etc. used for purchasing product registration.
In this regard, Wal-Mart stated that the intelligent system after the information is uploaded to the chain will increase customer loyalty, and through the access of intelligent services, the number of delivery drivers in the traditional form will be reduced, and the cost of logistics and transportation will be reduced.
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last week2018 China Blockchain (non-financial) Application Market Survey ReportAt the press conference, Zhang Junxian, partner of PwC China, said that logistics, customs, customs clearance, retail and other parties have different systems, and it is difficult to connect with each other, and there are limitations in data security and sharing The use of blockchain technology can connect all participants and interested parties from end to end.
Not only Wal-Mart, but another e-commerce giant, Amazon, is also actively using technology to improve logistics. Including hardware devices such as Kiva robots and drone delivery machines, as well as Amazon logistics + software devices. In addition, blockchain technology has also been incorporated into Amazons business scope. In April of this year, Amazons cloud computing department AWS launched the AWS blockchain template business that supports Ethereum and HyperlegerFabric. It plans to use this technology to carry commodity traceability and optimize logistics services in the future.
Wall Street NewsWall Street NewsAccording to reports, at the beginning of this year, Maersk and IBM joined forces to form a new blockchain company, which aims to realize the commercialization of blockchain technology, track the entire process of freight, and improve the safety of the shipping process.
