Doctorate thesis defense of Marwa Chamekh

Doctorate thesis defense on December 12^th 2023 at 11H00 AM ,in Amphitheater Ibn Khaldoun, SUP'COM 2.

Entitled :Human Posture Recognition

Presented by :Marwa Chamekh

Committee

Abstract

Nowadays, the modern supply chain is facing the new threats and opportunities due to quality, safety, ethics, environmental impact and other serious problems aroused by the opacity of supply chain. On the contrary, a secure and traceable supply chain can help suppliers minimize fraud and errors, enhance inventory management, reduce courier costs, lower waste and delay. Consequently, security and traceability are essential to the sustainable development of industrial supply chain in the future. Driven by growing demand for security and traceability from consumers, companies, and governments, some fundamental labelling technologies (e.g. RFID, QR code, NFC tag, etc.) have been already combined with web technology and applied in logistics system to identify a product with origin information.

Even though, those traditional technologies fail to provide a trusted and cost-efficient system to share information and record provenance. This thesis aims to find an approach to improve security and traceability of supply chain in a cost-efficient way. To achieve this goal, different approaches with emerging technologies are presented in this thesis: A new RFID based architecture for supply chain management, a context aware middleware for supply chains, an internet of things-based traceability system and a distributed secured architecture for supply chain management. The result of this research work not only provides in-depth research of supply chain management but also proposes a concrete solution with test scenarios to shape a secure and traceable supply chain network. This solution can track provenance and trajectory of an asset through the complex supply chain in real time, at the same time, provides unprecedented visibility and confidentiality.

Keywords

Internet of Things, Supply chain Management, Homomorphic signature, Security architecture, Context aware middleware, RFID, Fosstrak Platform, Tracking System.