SBIR Phase II: Radio-Frequency-Identification Based Seal & Packaging Methods To Eliminate Counterfeiting And Tampering Of Physical Goods

SBIR 第二阶段：基于射频识别的印章

• 批准号: 1951233
• 负责人: Emil Tremblay
• 金额: $ 74.91万
• 依托单位: SGNT INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-15 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1951233&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Radio; Frequency

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will result in a reduction of counterfeit physical goods on a global scale, serving industries including pharmaceutical, defense, and others. The proliferation of counterfeit goods is growing at an alarming rate, estimated at $1.2 trillion in 2017 and expected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2020. Furthermore, approximately 300,000 children die each year from receiving fake medicines to treat aliments such as malaria, pneumonia, and other diseases. The proposed technology will mitigate economic loss incurred from the proliferation of counterfeit goods for organizations, governments, and individuals, and improve the health and safety associated with the risk of counterfeit or tampered goods. This innovation will be inexpensive to manufacture and can be widely applied. Additionally, anyone in the supply chain, even an end-consumer with a common smart phone, can ensure that a product enabled with this innovation is authentic and untampered.The proposed project will continue development of a novel enhancement to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) that applies the concept of digital encryption to a physical seal or product packaging to detect if the barrier has been compromised. The project will advance the development of this technology by addressing two key development and engineering challenges. First, the project aims to miniaturize its current Printed-Circuit-Board (PCB) architecture into a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). While the PCB architecture is functional, its part count will be reduced by 95%. This will provide an orders-of-magnitude reduction in per-device cost and ensure suitable manufacturing yields. Second, the project will optimize the development of a tamper-sensing method.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛影响将导致在全球范围内减少伪造物品，服务于包括制药，国防和其他人在内的行业。 假冒商品的泛滥以惊人的速度增长，估计2017年为1.2万亿美元，到2020年，预计将达到1.8万亿美元。此外，每年约有300,000名儿童因接受假药物而死亡，以治疗诸如疟疾，肺炎和其他疾病等折磨。拟议的技术将减轻组织，政府和个人假冒商品的扩散所产生的经济损失，并改善与伪造或篡改商品的风险相关的健康和安全。这项创新将是便宜的制造，并且可以广泛应用。 此外，供应链中的任何人，即使是通用智能手机的最终消费者，都可以确保启用此创新的产品是真实且未受到启发的。拟议的项目将继续开发新颖的无线电频率识别（RFID），将数字加密概念应用于物理密封或产品包装概念，以检测物理密封或产品包装的概念。该项目将通过解决两个关键的开发和工程挑战来推动这项技术的发展。首先，该项目旨在将其当前的印刷电路板（PCB）体系结构微型化到单个应用程序特定的集成电路（ASIC）中。虽然PCB架构的功能是可实现的，但其部分计数将减少95％。这将减少每设备成本的降低命令，并确保合适的制造收益率。其次，该项目将优化篡改感应方法的开发。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估。