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Fresh.Point: Revolutionizing the European Fruit and Vegetable Sector with IoT
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Food & Beverage
Use Cases
- Behavior & Emotion Tracking
- Leakage & Flood Monitoring
Services
- Testing & Certification
The Challenge
The European fruit and vegetable sector faced a significant challenge in terms of residue monitoring. Wholesalers and international traders needed a platform that could streamline the process of assigning, reporting, and analyzing product tests. The lack of a collaborative platform resulted in inefficiencies, increased costs, and a lack of quality information. Furthermore, the sector lacked a comprehensive system that could provide insights into trends and best practices by comparing products, residues, suppliers, regions, and periods of time. The absence of a user-friendly business intelligence tool made it difficult for managers to independently browse data and create visualizations to support informed decision-making within their organizations.
About The Customer
The customers of Fresh.Point are wholesalers and international traders in the European fruit and vegetable sector. These traders are involved in the process of assigning, reporting, and analyzing product tests for residue monitoring. They require a platform that can streamline this process, provide quality information, and reduce costs. They also need a tool that can provide insights into trends and best practices by comparing various factors such as products, residues, suppliers, regions, and periods of time. The customers are also managers who need a user-friendly business intelligence tool that allows them to independently browse data and create visualizations to support informed decision-making within their organizations.
The Solution
Fresh.Point, a collaborative residue monitoring platform, was introduced to address these challenges. It connected traders with food laboratories and supported the workflow of assigning, reporting, and analyzing product tests. By sharing this online infrastructure and functionality, as well as knowledge on residue monitoring and anonymized data, cooperating traders were able to increase process and information quality while reducing costs. Additionally, the FreshPoint Analytics add-on allowed traders to look at aggregated data from every imaginable angle. They could compare products, residues, suppliers, regions, and periods of time, enabling them to discover new trends at an early stage or track data correlations that may point to best practices. This Self-Service Business Intelligence add-on was designed to be extremely user-friendly, allowing managers to independently browse the data and create stunning visualizations with a few clicks.
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