Objective
Develop an integrated system linking publishers, distributors and retailers of newspapers, books and magazines, for managing the return of unsold, based on the use of secure electronic certificates.
Depending on the country 30-45% of newspapers, books and magazines remain unsold. The counting of unsold copies provides the basis for invoicing retailers. A process of human visual inspection does counting, which is tedious, time-consuming and error-prone. The cost of handling returns in Italy comes to about 2 billion Euros per year. A secure e-commerce approach would reduce overheads, eliminate losses due to error and provide annual savings for the publishing industry of 100 of millions of Euro in Italy alone.
Objectives:
The strategy proposed by PUBCYS is to develop an automated system for the identification of newspaper and magazine stocks which permits:
the unique identification of stock, the tracking of stock throughout the product lifecycle, from printing to distribution, to sale, to consignment for recycling; the creation of electronic certificates for the amount of stock unsold, which can provide.
Work description:
The PUBCYS System consists of four distinct equipment: the Refuse Certification Equipment (RCE) which is to be used by the Publishing Distributing Agencies, the Secure Computer (SC), which is to be used by the Publishing Houses, the Operational Centre (OC), to collect and re-distribute all collected data, and the accessory Palm Device. During the development phase, the overall design activities will be so shared and performed by the partners as indicated in the next paragraphs.
Milestones:
The entire process for the PUBCYS System Design Architecture Definition is performed schematically by seven distinct sequential phases:
WP1 - Project Management and Administration Phase, to manage all technical, organisational, business and administration aspects of the design;
WP2 - Overall Technical Specification Phase; to define the formal basic requirements in terms of technical specifications and system performance;
WP3 - Architecture Definition Phase; to analyse and evaluate electric, electronic, thermal, mechanical and testability characteristics of the entire PUBCYS System;
WP4 - Detailed Design Phase; to complete all process of System/Product Design, System Prototype Development and System Prototype Test and Evaluation;
WP5 - R/M/T and STTE Development Phase; PUBCYS Reliability / Maintainability / Testability Analysis and Special Tools and Test Equipment (STTE) Development. All above phases aim to the finalisation of the;
WP6 - PUBCYS Test Set Phase, in which the PUBCYS System prototype, one RCE and one SC will be manufactured;
WP7 - Dissemination and Exploitation of Results Phase; to evaluate the development of sustainable business scenarios with detailed service and pricing models.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commerce
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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10149 TORINO
Italy