Philipp Kisters

Digitization opens up diverse and novel opportunities for citizen participation (e.g. citizen science / education). The project "SANE: Smart Networks for Urban Citizen Participation" aims to create a backbone of digitized cities in the form of a decentralized, open information space based on smart networks. Here, citizens (and institutions) can provide, disseminate, analyze and use a wide variety of (e.g. environmental) data. The challenges here are the integration of large quantities of heterogeneous sensors/devices, a network-based, distributed analysis and processing of information, and also the indispensable guarantee of security, resilience, privacy and trust. These are decisive for the acceptance and thus for the use of such an information space at all levels of the overall system and thus represent a unique selling point of the approach pursued in this project.

Future Transport Hamburg (FTH) is a feasibility study including conception and prototypical realization of an open freight exchange using novel blockchain technologies for decentralized logistics applications. In this third-party funded project, funded by the Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank (IFB Hamburg) in the "Program for Innovation (PROFI) - Module PROFI Umwelt Transfer", Philipp Kisters worked together with the company "Lufthansa Industry Solutions" (LHIND) to realize an open freight exchange. FTH will be the first blockchain-based - i.e. decentralized and flat-formless - freight exchange that combines the characteristics of freedom from costs and independence with the offer of additional applications. In doing so, blockchain technology will enable cryptographic proof of all transactions, replacing trust in a third party - usually the operator in the case of freight exchanges to date. Secure logging of all data as well as transparency of content guarantee fail-safety, anti-counterfeiting and traceability of data. A significant part of this project was the environmental assessment of such a solution. To this end, the energy required and the associated CO2 emissions for the freight exchange will be offset against the potential CO2 savings from increased truck utilization.