Secure Product Identity – Protection against Piracy
Globalization has turned product security into a major issue affecting the whole of the world economy: it’s not just German companies who feel the squeeze of brand and product piracy in terms of substantial loss of turnover and consequent shedding of jobs. Quite apart from this, the governments of industrialized countries have special cause to fear that an export economy in full drive can have serious long-term effects on the innovation capacities and reputation of their own internationally based companies and brands. The use of counterfeit security-critical components in machines like airplanes can also have lethal consequences. Protection of innovation and know-how has accordingly now been inscribed as one of the declared aims of the German federal government’s High-Tech Strategy.
Such are also the reasons why the Secure Identity Innovation Cluster is developing reliable solutions for product security. Project work is focused on the development of exportable security technologies for reliable worldwide protection against product and brand piracy.
Key Areas of Research:
Projects:
Project overview
Globalization has turned product security into a major issue affecting the whole of the world economy: it’s not just German companies who feel the squeeze of brand and product piracy in terms of substantial loss of turnover and consequent shedding of jobs. Quite apart from this, the governments of industrialized countries have special cause to fear that an export economy in full drive can have serious long-term effects on the innovation capacities and reputation of their own internationally based companies and brands. The use of counterfeit security-critical components in machines like airplanes can also have lethal consequences. Protection of innovation and know-how has accordingly now been inscribed as one of the declared aims of the German federal government’s High-Tech Strategy.
Such are also the reasons why the Secure Identity Innovation Cluster is developing reliable solutions for product security. Project work is focused on the development of exportable security technologies for reliable worldwide protection against product and brand piracy.
Key Areas of Research:
- Design of novel security features
- Counterfeit-proof, low-cost, intelligent product labels
- Development of (mobile) devices for verification of product identity
Projects:
- Product protection through recognition of inherent characteristics (Inherent-ID - PDF)
Project overview