Development of Prototype to respond to industry feedback requesting sequential covert marking techniques & methods of onsite verification and to raise the TRL of the SofMat product for investment & commercialisation

开发原型以响应行业反馈要求顺序隐蔽标记技术

• 批准号: 720715
• 金额: $ 26.95万
• 依托单位: SOFMAT LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720715
• 关键词: Development; Prototype; respond; industry; feedback

The problem of counterfeit products has been well documented in the press for a number ofyears. The most recent case of counterfeit cosmetics containing arsenic amongst othercontaminants was reported in May 2015. The SofMat product allows for sequential covertmarking of products to produce a unique code and the verification of authenticity throughoutthe supply chain. The product also links in with, and augments, the ‘Track and Trace’technology that is currently being implemented by the pharmaceutical industry by adding anextra layer of security to the system. This technology adds an item specific code to eachcomponent marked that links with a master database for added security & ease verification bythe client. The SofMat product can also be linked with any individual company markingsystem, again to increase security but also to make the product unique to that company. Theuse of the SofMat product is not limited to the cosmetic and pharmaceutical sectors althoughthese are the initial target markets. The marking technology has had interest from the highvalue and medium value watch markets, producers of containers and closures, automotive,aerospace and drinks markets. The time for copying most existing anti-counterfeittechnologies is less than 18 months. However the SofMat technology provides a greaterdegree of security by producing a larger number of variables, for example a 7.5mm and0.5mm array can be used to mark and uniquely identify above 10 billion parts or components.The marking system is backed up with a bespoke hand held reader that can be tailored to beunique to each end user and allows confirmation of authenticity throughout the supply chain

多年来，媒体已经充分报道了假冒产品的问题。最近一起含有砷的假冒化妆品案件发生在2015年5月。SofMat产品允许对产品进行连续的隐蔽标记，以产生唯一的代码，并在整个供应链中验证真伪。该产品还与"跟踪和追踪“技术相连接，并通过为系统增加额外的安全层来增强该技术，该技术目前正由制药行业实施。这项技术为每个标记的组件添加了一个项目特定的代码，该代码与主数据库链接，以增加安全性并简化客户端的验证。SofMat产品还可以与任何单个公司的标识系统相关联，这同样可以提高安全性，但也可以使该产品成为该公司的独特产品。SofMat产品的使用不仅限于化妆品和制药行业，尽管这些是最初的目标市场。该标记技术已经引起了高价值和中等价值手表市场、容器和瓶盖生产商、汽车、航空航天和饮料市场的兴趣。大多数现有防伪技术的复制时间不到18个月。然而，SofMat技术通过产生更多的变量提供了更高的安全性，例如，7.5mm和0.5mm阵列可用于标记和唯一识别超过100亿个零件或组件。标记系统配备了定制的手持阅读器，可针对每个最终用户进行定制，并允许在整个供应链中确认真实性