Service-Oriented Logic of Using Information Technologies in the Circular Economy

Abstract

The circular economy (or closed-loop economy) model is an alternative to the traditional, linear manufacturing economy model. Its main task is to organize a closed cycle of production and consumption of products and services and recycling and/or reuse of by-products and waste, which is the undoubted advantage of the circular economy model over the linear one. For its part, this requires the creation of a specialized system of information and communication relations between all participants and, above all, with end users of products and services. In this paper, the solution of this problem is proposed to be carried out on a technological platform by a synergistic combination of methods of service-dominant logic and product-service systems based on information and communication technologies. Closed cycles of production and consumption of energy-intensive products, equipment and materials should be organized, covering almost all links in the transformation of energy resources - from their production to consumption. The central place in this should be occupied by the Internet of Things - an open technological platform where the flows and resources of the system participants (material, energy, financial and economic, information, etc.) will intersect. As a structural form of implementation of the platform under consideration, a vertically integrated form of controlling an inextricable chain of processes for the production and consumption of products and services is proposed. As a fundamental principle for the application of such control, the possibility for system participants to choose the optimal degree of their organizational and functional independence within the limits of intra-system restrictions, regulated by higher-lying subjects (objects) of the system, is determined.