Funding Details
- Awarder
- PlugAndPlayTechCenter
- Date Award
- May 15, 2024
- Funding URL
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Company Info
- Company Description
- We develop low-cost, robust, item-unique physical identifiers – fingerprints for things – to ensure the authenticity of products and provide security and trust from end-to-end in the supply chain.
Our proprietary technology is based on the branching pattern of dendritic structures, which generates a unique and tamper-proof identifier for each component. Once the DI is created, the manufacturer captures an initial image to record the pattern into a database. That pattern is then transformed into a unique key that is linked to a digital record to track the component's lifecycle journey through the supply chain, ensuring authenticity and traceability. In essence, our DIs serve as fingerprints for products while the digital record acts as their passport.
Our DI's offer a versatile and customizable solution by allowing implementation on labels or directly on objects, using various materials. These identifiers, formed through printing or stamping processes with readily available bulk materials generate 'digital triggers' that surpass the physical scalability and security of bar/QR codes while remaining more affordable, robust, and easier to use than RFID or chemical taggants.
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