Enabling simple and highly secure authentication from printed polymer materials

产品认证对于保护消费者和制造商免受假冒伪劣产品的经济、健康和社会代价至关重要。随着COVID-19的爆发，越来越多的犯罪分子试图利用PPE用品和药品，再加上在线零售和安全性较低的供应链的急剧增加，Optomel正在创造一种创新的新认证方法，其中大规模生产的印刷特征通过智能手机上的LED闪光灯激活，创建一个非常简单但引人注目的安全图像，否则会被隐藏。超过80%的英国人口拥有智能手机（ofcom.org.uk）。该项目将满足对简单但高度安全的产品认证功能的需求，这些功能可以被公众验证。现有的解决方案，特别是在公开的层面上-为公共认证而设计-正在变得越来越妥协，并且能够很容易地模拟到足以欺骗外行。该项目将支持创建最小可行产品演示器（MVP），与行业标准处理兼容。Optomel是一家中小型企业（成立于2018年），在南安普顿大学科技园拥有专门的实验室和办公设施，在认证技术市场拥有丰富的经验。（* 资料来源：欧盟委员会，欧洲反欺诈办公室新闻稿，2020年5月13日）

Product authentication is of crucial importance in protecting consumers and manufacturers from the economic, health and social costs of counterfeit and falsified products. COVID-19 has seen increasing reports of criminals seeking to exploit PPE supplies and pharmaceuticals,\* coupled with the dramatically increasing shift towards online retail and less secure supply chains.Optomel is creating an innovative new approach to authentication in which mass produced printed features are activated by the LED flash on smartphones, creating a very simple but striking security image that is otherwise hidden. Over 80% of the UK population have a smartphone (ofcom.org.uk). This project will address the need for simple yet highly secure product authentication features that can be verified by the public.Existing solutions, especially at the overt level - designed for public authentication - are becoming increasingly compromised and are able to be readily simulated enough to deceive the layperson.This project will support creation of minimum viable product demonstrators (MVP), compatible with industry standard processing. It will showcase the technology, allowing Optomel to engage with customers, partners, and investors to help further commercialise the innovation.Optomel is an SME (founded 2018) with dedicated lab and office facilities on the University of Southampton Science Park, with significant prior experience of the authentication technology market.(\*Source: EU Commission, European Anti-Fraud Office Press Release 13th May 2020.)