Authoreon launches the A-ID, the World’s First Machine-Readable Optical Label on the Blockchain
Existing optical labels, like barcodes and QR codes, only contain or link to centralized information about the item and aren’t optimal for authentication, decentralized and secure data storage, selective access, and tracing. For a long time, there has been demand for a web enabled barcode, but even the recently launched GS1 Digital Link standard cannot provide sufficient and tamper-proof product data, retailer authentication, original product verification, or a long-term traceability.
Authoreon developed the A-ID, the world’s first machine-readable optical label on the blockchain. The A-ID is a scanable code that creates a secure digital twin for products and identities, so users can verify, authorize, authenticate or certify any identity or asset – fast, seamlessly and securely on the Blockchain. The code generator and reader beta apps are now available for Android and iOS.
Among the first dApps to be released by Authoreon is the very first blockchain-based fingerprinting process for brands seeking to minimise counterfeiting of their goods – without the need of expensive and bulky REFID- or NFC chips. On a microscopic level, any surface has a unique structure, just like a human fingerprint. Even two evidently identical items out of the same batch differentiate in high resolution. Authoreon offers its customers - with luxury brands being the biggest target for counterfeiters – to take micro snapshots of pre-defined spots on every item leaving the production line and store it – combination with an A-ID – securely on the blockchain. For the consumer, Authoreon offers the Nanolense, a hardware extension for any smartphone, that is capable of taking microscans of any given surface and thus verify any product for its originality.
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