Trace Crystal develops and produces materials and software to endow physical items with unique, unclonable and untransferable artificial fingerprints, called CaeSaR tags, that allow reliable and trustworthy authentication of the items via a simple optical read-out. CaeSaR tags also link each item securely and directly to its digital twin virtual representation, allowing customers to track and trace their products and share data over the distribution chain to the end customer. Because CaeSaR tags have virtually no physical footprint and can be made visible or invisible as desired, they provide an exceptionally versatile solution to the problem of counterfeit or otherwise substandard products disrupting supply chains, being used in return fraud, or simply being sold to honest customers believing they are buying a high-value and high-quality product.
The research at the heart of TraceCrystal has been supported by:
