Ice Chain Developing

Ice Chain
Ice Chain
Aug 31, 2018 · 3 min read

The Ice Chain team is permanently working on the product developing it to the final stage. QTUM Hackathon is a great opportunity to get some feedback and experience for our growth as experts in the field.

In this article we’ll show you our developing processes, how our TDL prototype works and show you some results of our work.

Business development

As you know, every product has to get its market fit. Ours one is no exception.

Firstly, we conducted primary analysis of the cold chain market (market of thermo logistics) to discover its key problems. We observed some actual approaches and offered the better decision based on interaction of a temperature logger, QTUM-based smart contract and mobile application. See our previous publications on Medium.

Many people say there are too many blockchain projects and ICOs related to logistics. For instance, icobench.com offers more than 40 ICOs. So, our business model seems to look a bit stereotyped, but actually this is not true. That is why we plan to make a special publication with survey of actual ICO market to clarify outstanding features of Ice Chain.

Mobile application development

Secondly, we began to develop our mobile application. We designed UI and UX, made up the task paper for the app. And, finally, Thomas take a leadership in this part.

You can see some screenshots of how Thomas contributes. Several parts of the app are already finished. And we can say that quality doesn’t tolerate haste.

The storyboard for the entire app
The constructor of the contract
A unit test for the contract

Temperature Data Logger development

And, finally, Romano developed the Temperature Data Logger device prototype. Full description of its workflow and specifications you can see here. The prototype already has connection via Bluetooth module and one can settle the temperature measuring frequency. You can see the animated performance of first testing prototype here.

Ice Chain Roadmap

Among other things, we claim that our team now considers Ice Chain as a promising project and aims to work on it regardless of Hackathon results. In the future, as our technology develops and experience increases, we plan to:

  • Collaborate with professionals of the cold chain field
  • Make a fully working MVP, including a web dashboard. Ice Chain web dashboard enables extended user-friendly interface for creating smart contracts, tracking of shipments, data visualization and analytics.
  • Test the MVP in real market conditions on the base of constant partnership with major market operators
  • Conduct a deep customer development among the Russia, US or / and Europe market
  • Make edits in the Ice Chain business model in accordance to the customer development results
  • Make edits in the product
  • Permanently conduct tests of the product in accordance to Lean Startup methodology
  • Conduct a partnership with QTUM
  • Release the final version of the Ice Chain system
  • Invite funds for future development

At the end of the QTUM Hackathon, we will have a prototype Ice Chain system that can be easily developed into the fully working MVP version. After the contest, we plan to widen our team and invite experts of cold chain field, strong software developers, and engineers.

Stay tuned and you will be able to see how a group of motivated inventors can make a valuable product.

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Ice Chain is the dApp project aimed to simplify cooperation between operators of the sensitive cargoes. Website http://icechain.tilda.ws/qtum

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