Benelog works closely with GS1 – a Global Standards organization. In 2020, GS1 started working on a new EPCIS 2.0 (EPCIS = Electronic Product Code Information Services). EPCIS 2.0 aims to modernize its predecessor which was supporting only XML-based data exchange. This new standard will be supporting modern data formats like JSON/JSON-LD and REST interfaces. Benelog & Brevitaz also joined in the journey at the beginning and set a vision for implementing a very high velocity & low latency EPCIS 2.0 repository. This new product will bring a major upgrade in the entire supply chain industry that rely on EPCIS standards for tracking/tracing and managing their products.

A challenge was set up to build a high-performance fully compliant EPCIS 2.0 repository and implement it through cutting-edge technologies like a reactive stack, and NoSQL databases and build a repository that is fully compliant with EPCIS 2.0. It also needs to be designed as a cloud-native application. Benelog wanted to be the first in the world to have such a state-of-the-art implementation and make it fully or partly open source.

Technologies:

• Backend: Java17, Quarkus, Mutiny, Vertx, Kafka Streams, Elasticsearch & Opensearch, Postgres, AWS (EC2, S3), Keycloack, WebSocket, Docker
• Frontend: VueJS, Nuxt