In collaboration with Digital Catapult and project partners, Motive Fuels and Reynolds Logistics, Hydrologiq has launched the Digital Supply Chain Testbed for H₂ NRMM. The emerging H₂ supply chain has several challenges impacting both current adoption and future growth. From the company’s research and on-the-ground experience, we see that the lack of data and process standardization, plus the constrained availability of H₂ fuel and assets are two of the major obstacles the industry is currently facing.

The testbed provides a digital model of the supply chain, based on real-world relationships and data. First, they captured the supply chain relationships and published an open-source ontology, which can help provide data standardization across the industry. Second, they created a complete application development environment allowing 3rd parties to build supply chain simulations and other innovative applications via our API. By combining existing market data in the testbed with additional scenario data, 3rd parties can simulate product and data flows as well as model scenarios to better understand impact. Covering the end-to-end supply chain, this provides insights into supply chain constraints and other dynamics.

To demonstrate the flexibility of the testbed and its ability to be built upon, and also to provide a how-to guide to developers, the company has published a reference application that showcases H₂ fuel and delivery method supply-and-demand matching.