The CLAIR analysis platform from the Central Agency Packaging Register (ZSVR) was honoured with second place in the "Best Data Project Award" from the Federal Association of IT Users. The platform utilises huge data sets to uncover inconsistencies and gaps in company data on packaging quantities.
Tracking down free riders and ensuring greater fairness in the recycling market - purely digitally and with high impact. The ZSVR with the CLAIR analysis platform. It uses this tool to analyse millions of packaging data records and text documents in a fully automated process. The cross-departmental user team at ZSVR has now been honoured with second place in the "Best Data Project Award" in the "SMEs" category. The Federal Association of IT Users "VOICE" awards prizes to teams for innovative data-centred projects.
Linking the data from the LUCID packaging register with external data sources, processing it and making it usable for analyses: Getting there was not always easy. Writing programmes, structuring terrabytes of data, reading out texts, making data compatible - this is the daily routine of the cross-departmental project team.
Millions of data records are available, with more being added every day. Each individual piece of data is a piece of the puzzle which, when correctly put together and analysed, provides conclusions about the whole. Analyses based on algorithms reveal when company information or reports on packaging quantities are incomplete or incorrect. This has never happened before in this form.
"Our team, consisting of employees from the IT and Processes as well as Analytics and BI departments, has been working at a high level for four years. We started by setting up the infrastructure and the data model. We are now technically and professionally capable of checking the plausibility of over four million quantity reports from companies with more than 550,000 PDF pages of inspector documentation", says Franziska Safak, Head of the Analytics and BI department. Suspected cases are identified and passed on to the enforcement authorities, and the goal of sufficient funding for high-quality packaging recycling in Germany is getting closer with every case.
With its placement in the "Best Data Award", the ZSVR shows what is possible as a digital, modern authority. "We were able to assert ourselves in the diverse environment of the German IT and digital community, which makes us very proud. CLAIR is a big data project without a large budget. This is only possible with agile working methods that make extensive use of both digitalisation and automation. Our interdisciplinary teams are highly motivated and have outgrown themselves. I am therefore delighted that this award honours this incredible commitment," says Gunda Rachut, CEO of ZSVR.
Source: ZSVR
