Monitoring of

Containers

(MoCo) Jeroen Hoebeke – IBBT – IBCN/UGent

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Overall goal

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End-to-end container monitoring

Including inter-container communication using sensor technology

Research needed?

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Environment?

Energy-

efficient

communication

solutions?

Viable

business

model?

Introduces new research problems

at several levels

Research needed?

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Environment?

Energy-

efficient

communication

solutions?

Viable

business

model?

Research problems are strongly interrelated +

solving them requires external expertise

Generation and exchange of knowledge

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Generation of knowledge beyond individual

capabilities and expertise

Enable on-site

measurements

• Help understand process

• Hardware expertise

• Experience

• Sector feedback

Realism Techno-economic Researc

h

Industr

y

Added value for research groups

Scope spans multiple domains

Creates broader vision

Gain new insights on existing knowledge

Gain additional knowledge applicable elsewhere

Forced to think outside well-established patterns

Interaction with companies

Access to new information

Opportunities to learn about business aspects

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Build stronger and broader expertise,

strengthen reputation

Added value for researchers

Enrich individual research

Use case as enabler/evidence for relevance of research

MoCo use case as motivation

Real-world importance of research results

Tangibility of work + recognition

…but combination of longer-term research (e.g. PhD

students) and project work can cause conflicts or

additional burden

E.g. effort to achieve publishable results versus realization

of prototype (getting the details right), time frame

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Market-driven versus research-driven

Research group

Track record in applied research

Realization of proof-of-concept, prototype

In line with ICON projects

Changing trend in research world

Sensor world: importance of experimentation (real

implementations)

General challenge

Find match between longer-term research strategies and

shorter ICON projects -> added value beyond mere

implementation as is the case in MoCo

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Market-driven versus research-driven

Publications

What/what not to publish?

Can be organized smoothly

Achieving publications

No problem

New opportunities (e.g. use case)

Certain aspects of MoCo research

More focus

Elaborated outside project

Basis for further research

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Conclusion

MoCo = ICON project with

Several research challenges

Good interaction between research groups

Strong interaction with industrial partners

Executed as 1 project, not many subprojects

=> Added value for research groups/researchers with

several opportunities for publications and follow-up

research

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Monitoring of

Containers

(MoCo) Jeroen Hoebeke – IBBT – IBCN/UGent

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