Right now, Sony unveiled its Blockchain Frequent Database (BCDB) platform, which is getting used as a part of a transport service resolution that gives customers with info relating to optimum routes, fares, really helpful technique of transport and different companies.
The answer was developed by Sony for Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and can allow seven million customers per day to report and share their anonymized journey historical past. BCDB integrates numerous technique of transportations corresponding to trains, buses, taxis, car-sharing, on-demand mobility companies and rental bicycles. The answer covers all the means of reserving a ticket to the clearing of fee.
BCDB is an information-sharing platform constructed to handle the long run wants of sensible cities by analyzing motion information and income allocation for transportation companies.
Final yr, Sony participated within the Blockchain Challenge Program of the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Administration to check BCDB. In accordance with Sony, it was the one participant whose resolution met the necessities laid down by the Ministry.
“BCDB has made it potential to report and share info in a distributed ledger of the blockchain amongst numerous Transportation Operators, Transaction Processors and MaaS Service Suppliers concerned in MaaS, thereby making it potential to make the most of info with reliability and transparency and deploy it as a service,” Sony stated in its statement.
Going ahead, Sony plans to scale the platform for sooner information processing to be used by greater cities. Moreover, BCDB is also used for different functions that require recording and sharing of sensor information for the event of sensible cities.
The Japanese conglomerate has beforehand trialed blockchain for the rights management of educational data. This resolution applies to written works and books. Final yr, Sony invested within the German startup Bitwala, which is creating a platform combining a crypto pockets and buying and selling system with a traditional checking account.
Sony additionally has an funding within the tokenization agency Securitize. It partnered with Fujitsu for a blockchain trial to handle language course information and check outcomes.
