The UBIX.Network project enters the real sector: partnerships, super services and blockchain laboratories in construction industry.
Tags: Project Management, Construction, Blockchain Adoption, Blockchain

Construction is one of the most capital-intensive industries in the world economy, with an incredible $ 13 trillion/year market volume. At the same time, it is one of the most conservative industries currently undergoing a period of digital transformation. The digitization of business processes in construction, the introduction of digital models, opens up opportunities for using blockchain technologies to organize the interaction of project participants — solving the problem of trust, for which, in fact, UBIX platform was developed.

In the process of coordinating joint work with the first industry partners, we managed to create a universal concept, which we intend to scale and use not only in construction, but also in other industries. Let’s consider this concept from different points of view:

Applications.

We develop our applications based on the UBIX.Network protocol. Usually, for each application, its own specific blockchains are formed, integrated into the UBIX network.

We try to actively use the modules of our UBIKIRI superapp (Identity, Profiles, Wallets, etc.) — this not only simplifies development, but also allows us to integrate the developed products into a single ecosystem.

Our dev team creates a basic service (we call this service “Monoservice”) that provides the main business function. Monoservice interacts with UBIKIRI modules through NATS messages, and with UBIX.Network through RPC requests. For external users (industry localizations), interaction through the REST API is used. Thus, localized services do not interact directly with the blockchain.

Industry-specific localizations of the service are developed within the framework of Research Topics together with industry partners. The result of the development is the Industry localization of the monoservice (as a rule, this is a specific interface).

When developing an industry-specific localization of a service, it is usually possible to develop new services that collectively solve a complex problem in the industry. We call this set of services a superservice.

Example:

SilentNotary monoservice. Industry localization is the interface through which the construction control engineer accepts completed work. Adaptation performed — entries about identifiers of structural elements were added to transactions, the proof and the supervisor’s decision were linked to the project documentation.

SilentNotary, Register_of_subcontractors, Unified _register_of_costs monoservices allow us to create a “superservice” — a system for monitoring settlements in a construction project with division of payments by the levels of end contractors.

2. Economy.

Sources of financing.

Development and maintenance of the UBIX.Network network is carried out at the expense of the network development fund.

The development of monoservices is carried out through crowdfunding (token sale on fICO) using the UBIX Launchpad crowdfunding platform and UBIX.Exchange.

The development of the industry-specific localization of the service is carried out at the expense of the Industry Partner.

Reseller costs are included in the installation cost and are covered by the Industry Partner.

Monetization.

All services use SaaS monetization model. Tariff-compliant payments received from end-users are sequentially split between the Industry Partner (the owner of the industry localization), the holders of the mono service tokens, and the masternodes of the UBIX network as a tx fee payment.

3. Organizational structure.

Together with industry partners, we create joint development structures: blockchain laboratories in the form of simple partnerships without the formation of a legal entity. The agreement on the creation of a laboratory (partnership) defines the procedure for the use of intellectual property, the procedure for creating workgroups, restrictions on the disclosure of information and other obligations of the parties.

The activities of each laboratory are limited to approved Research Topics. Research topics are public information and are published as part of the wiki documentation of our project.

For each Research Topic, a working group is formed, consisting of both UBIX team members and specialists from an industry partner. The result of the work of the workgroup is a feasibility study and terms of reference for the industry adaptation of the monoservice.