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

多年来，媒体对假冒产品的问题已经有了充分的报道。最近一起含有砷等污染物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顺序隐蔽标记，以产生唯一代码，并通过供应链验证真实性。该产品还与制药行业目前正在实施的“跟踪和跟踪”技术相联系，并通过为系统增加一层额外的安全措施来增强这一技术。这项技术为每个标记的组件添加了特定于项目的代码，该代码与主数据库链接，从而增加了安全性，并便于客户验证。Sofmat产品还可以与任何单个公司的营销系统链接，同样是为了提高安全性，同时也是为了使产品对该公司来说是独一无二的。Sofmat产品的使用并不局限于化妆品和制药行业，尽管这些是最初的目标市场。高值和中值手表市场、容器和封套生产商、汽车、航空航天和饮料市场对标记技术感兴趣。复制大部分现有防伪技术的时间不到18个月。然而，Sofmat技术通过产生更多变量来提供更大程度的安全性，例如，7.5 mm和0.5 mm阵列可用于标记和唯一识别超过100亿个部件或部件。标记系统由定制的手持阅读器支持，该阅读器可定制为对每个最终用户唯一，并允许在整个供应链中确认真实性

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