The product lifecycle, on the passport
A Digital Product Passport shouldn't freeze at the factory gate. Under ESPR, and for a real circular economy, what matters is what happens to a product afterwards — every repair, refurbishment, usage milestone and its end-of-life. dpp.gs records these as a chronological event timeline on the passport, per serial number, and lets both the owner and independent repairers contribute.
Four kinds of lifecycle event
- Repair — a fault fixed, a part replaced (with what, by whom, when).
- Refurbishment — a unit reconditioned for a second life.
- Usage — operational milestones and telemetry (hours run, cycles, service intervals).
- End-of-life — collection, disassembly, recycling or safe disposal.
Each event is tied to a specific serial number (GS1 AI 21), so the history belongs to the individual unit — not just the model. Scanning a unit's QR shows its own timeline.
Built on an open standard, not a silo
Events are modelled as GS1 EPCIS 2.0 ObjectEvents and exposed as a public EPCIS 2.0 JSON-LD document — so recyclers, insurers, resale platforms and authorities can consume the history with off-the-shelf tools. Owner-recorded repair claims can be issued as signed W3C Verifiable Credentials (Ed25519), verifiable offline. No blockchain.
Who can add events
Two contributors, with clear accountability:
- The product owner (brand / manufacturer) — via the dashboard or the API (also the machine/IoT "append" endpoint for telemetry). Owner claims can be cryptographically signed.
- Independent repair & refurbish partners — small repair shops and refurbishers who don't have (and shouldn't need) a formal partnership with the brand. They register once with dpp.gs (company identity: VAT or company number + address), then log in on the passport itself, pick a category and record what they did to that serial. Every entry is stamped with the provider's identity, so the record is transparent and attributable.
We made these open partner contributions open on purpose: the value of a real, accruing repair and reuse history — the backbone of the right-to-repair and the circular economy — outweighs the risk of the occasional stray entry, which the owner can always remove.
Why it matters for compliance and value
- ESPR & Battery Regulation expect durability, repairability and end-of-life information to travel with the product.
- Resale & insurance — a verifiable service history raises residual value and trust.
- Recyclers get disassembly and material context at end-of-life.
Give your products a living history
Record repair, reuse and end-of-life events on dpp.gs — or register as a repair & refurbish partner and start logging.
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