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Kaula develops DataWallet
to manage Blockchain dApps and eWallet

Tokyo, 2018.12.3.     Kaula Inc., a Distributed Ledger Technology company (HQ: Tokyo, Japan, CEO: Katsuji Okamoto) is pleased to announce its developing DataWallet.  Under a circumstance that Blockchain applications are almost ready to be used for industries, accessibility to an application as well as usability of application itself becomes important, that is how easy to access and start my applications and manage my private data. DataWallet is a dApp which invokes dApps of blockchain that an individual user holds, and which is self-sovereign governed by each user.

DataWallet has an ERC20 wallet in its center to manage operation and control of value transition between entities, that is one of the core natures of blockchain. It also holds a set of dApps information in the MyDapps Directory, including user private data that will be referred by the dApp, location (because dApp does not necessarily run on the same device) and config/init data of the dApp.  All data are symbolically stored and converted to the unique ID via a name services like ENS. As user authentication uPort is used as default.
It is planned that you can purchase dApps through Apps Store and relevant information is stored into the MyApps Directory.

Fig.1 DataWallet and its execution

DataWallet was originally considered for applications of ABCC (Automotive Blockchain Consortium) and was greatly upgraded to be a general model of DataWallet. It can be used for various situations including
(1) DataWallet on a Smart Phone for personal use
(2) DataWallet on PCs for enterprise application execution
(3) DataWallet on an edge computer in an automotive vehicle for IoT applications

A beta release of DataWallet will launch in early 2019, and its usability to be examined by several blockchain applications.
Further development is also planned to support Interoperability of blockchain applications even in limited environments.
About Kaula Inc. 
Head office: 2-9 Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Business:    Consulting services of digital transformation, development of blockchain application services around data management and IoT for leading companies and organizations, and blockchain education business
Membership:
– Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
– Edge Platform Consortium (EPFC)
– Automotive Blockchain Consortium (ABCC)
URL: https://kaula.jp/

Contact: info@kaula.jp

Kuala with Azapa Corporation today announced the foundation of Automotive Blockchain Consortium “ABCC” to accelerate the Digital Transformation for Automotive and Mobility industries.

We will proceed the following activities with member companies (will be soon in public).
１）Verification and evaluation of common technologies including Blockchain for ABCC community
２）Establish testing environment for application service companies to easily introduce Blockchain technologies into their services
３）Supply an ABCC platform which can integrate IoT and Blockchain technologies
４）Proceed and accelerate reference implementations (hopefully standardization) of Blockchain technologies for Automotive and Mobility industries

As for the Press Release on ABCC,
Original Japanese version: here .
English translation: here .

Business alliance between Kaula, Inc. and AZAPA Co., Ltd. aiming to build blockchain technology and service in the automotive market

Kaula, Inc. (HQ in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Katsuji Okamoto, hereinafter referred to as “KAULA”), a blockchain technology company, and AZAPA Co., Ltd., (HQ in Nagoya, Aichi-ken, CEO & President: Yasuhiro Kondo, hereinafter referred to as “AZAPA”), a leading company in the automotive field, have concluded a business tie-up. We will work on development of practical application services that increase economic values of data derived from automobiles by adapting the blockchain technology.

Background of the Alliance
A paradigm shift of the automotive market is near at our hand, especially due to China’s EV shift. Regulations on CO₂ emission is being required around the world to solve serious air pollution problems, shifting from gasoline cars to electric cars is going on and EV battery management attracts attention now.
Battery is the heart of EV. It is the most expensive, heaviest and dangerous. KAULA and AZAPA together will make a new sharing economy around the battery to maximize its value and manage its life cycle, acquiring battery residual value data, distributing battery usage forecast using AI and writing them into the blockchain to guarantee authenticity and non-tampering.

Overview of BRVPS
The Battery Residual Value Prediction System (BRVPS) acquires data from BMS (Battery Management System) such as temperature, humidity, pressure, voltage, current, etc. in the battery unit and information from OBD (On-Board Diagnostics) and then stores them in the battery residual value forecast engine. BRVPS steadily executes AI/ML and writes the results to blockchain which EV/battery owners and users can access via cloud services. This enables you to extract the maximum battery value through freely accessing the present and future SOH (State of Health), including charging efficiency, and usage forecasts based on the past battery usage tendency.

The Next Deployment
Through cooperation with EV and battery manufacturers, we aim to develop new markets centering battery data. Implementing each step of EV and battery supply and demand balance, energy consumption planning, reservation, use and settlement, we accelerate the spread of EV and create additional services so that EV and battery owners and users can switch from consumers to prosumers.
In addition to the rising of global environmental consciousness, automatic driving and other technologies, newly services have been born and growing rapidly. We will broadly provide highly value-added services through KAULA’s blockchain technology and AZAPA’s automotive technology and network to build a new business model together.

Establishing a Consortium
We will set up a consortium to form an ecosystem, ahead of mega platform formers, to establish “IoT-blockchain based technology” aiming at a practical service model which covers from sensing to data utilization.
The paradigm shift surrounding automotive industry is progressing and closely related to the deepening of IoT, and the economic value of data obtained from automobiles has already been widely acknowledged. The current telematics, however, the type and granularity of acquired data are not standardized and its service is so limited. We will together promote applications created by utilizing data and their standardization including blockchain and security as backplane technologies.

Outline of Kaula, Inc.
Head office: 2-9 Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Business: In collaboration with leading companies and organizations in the global blockchain area, supplying consulting services for blockchain application building, development of services of record management and the IoT field, and blockchain education business.
Kaula is a member of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and Edge Platform Consortium.
URL: https://kaula.jp/

Outline of AZAPA Co., Ltd.
Head office: Nishiki 2-4-15, Naka-ku, Nagoya
Business: Researches of new systems and providing business solutions in each field (*) of automobiles. Promoting the Tier 0.5 concept.
* Model base, measurement technology, new control theory, energy, IoT, artificial intelligence, kansei technology
URL: http: //www.azapa.co.jp

Contact:
Kaula, Inc.
Hiroyasu Nohata, CIO,
E-mail: Kaula.laboratory @ kaula.jp
TEL: 03-6265-4888

AZAPA Co., Ltd
Satoshi Nishida, Business Planning Dept.
E-mail: satoshi-nishida @ azapa.co.jp
TEL: 052-221-7350 /FAX: 052-221-7351

Kaula won the 3rd price for its “Full life-cycle management system for batteries on  blockchain technology” at Wanxiang’s Global Blockchain Challenge contest.

Kaula will deliver a presentation at 3rd Blockchain Summit Shanghai 2017 on September 14.

Award certificate

We have moved to the new location;

Dai２ Tohmei Bldg., ２−９Kanda−Jimbocho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 101-0051

 
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)  announced that Kaula joined EEA as its formal member at the Consensus 2017 held at New York on May 22.

EEA aims to achieve the following five goals to promote Ethereum used in enterprise environment.

1. Develop a sufficiently modular Ethereum implementation to separate and define clear interfaces between networking and storage layers – that is a prototype for pluggable consensus that minimizes the code changes required to switch consensus algorithms.
2. Experiment with potential consensus algorithms, along with data privacy and permissioning frameworks.
3. Develop a clear set of capabilities and performance characteristics that suit the needs of enterprises, including:
   1. 100 transactions per second, across a 10 party network
   2. High volume and value use cases
   3. High availability/reliability
   4. Parallelization and horizontal scaling
4. Develop a Version 1 specification for Enterprise Ethereum, based on the learnings from the above plus the roadmap and requirements gathered from members, i.e., produce a reference implementation.
5. Leverage a robust governance process to ensure alignment and agreement on approaches.

Please see also the original press release →　enterprise-ethereum-alliance-release