Scantrust

Scantrust is a Swiss company that provides an Internet of Things platform for connecting products and packaging to the internet using secure unique identifiers, including QR codes with an anti-counterfeiting feature.[1][2]

Scantrust
TypePrivately held company
IndustrySoftware as a service
Founded2013
FounderJustin Picard, Nathan J. Anderson, Paul Landry
Headquarters
Lausanne
,
Switzerland
ServicesBrand protection, supply chain traceability, smart packaging
Websitewww.scantrust.com

Scantrust offers protection and traceability for various industries, such as luxury goods,[3] food products,[4] industrial machines,[5] water filters, cables,[6] agrochemical products[7] and fiscal stamps.[8] Nathan J. Anderson is the current Scantrust CEO[2]

History

Justin Picard, Nathan J. Anderson, and Paul Landry founded Scantrust at the end of 2013,[9][10] and the company won the VentureKick prize in 2014.[11] A seed round led by SOSV was raised in 2015,[12][13] and a series A led by Credit Suisse was raised in 2017.[14][15][16] In 2016, the company concluded a partnership with Agfa-Gevaert to integrate its technologies into Agfa's security software.[17][18] In 2017 the National Seeds Institute of Argentina released a fiscal stamp printed with Scantrust secure QR Code.[8] The same year, Scantrust was chosen by VentureKick as Global Shaper for year 2013.[19] In 2018, at a hackathon organised by the European Commission "to shape and deliver the future anti-counterfeiting infrastructure",[20] Scantrust and BigChainDB won both the consumer challenge and the customs challenge (team name Fides).[21][22][23] It also entered into a partnership with Hyperledger and implemented blockchain-enabled traceability using Hyperledger Sawtooth.[24] In 2019, the Dutch Standards organisation NEN announced they would use Scantrust secure QR codes to ensure the authenticity of their certificates.[25] The same year, Scantrust entered into a partnership with HP Indigo for labels printed with HP commercial printers.[26] In 2020, Scantrust entered into a partnership with SAP[27] to deliver end-to-end traceability.

Product authentication and traceability

The company has developed a QR Code system with an additional layer of protection against copying, based on inserting a copy detection pattern or secure graphic which loses information when it is copied.[28][16] The technology does not require special materials, inks, and modifications to printing equipment to implement.[29] Related product authentication and traceability data can be stored into a blockchain.[30][31][32]

QR Codes used in Scantrust authentication and traceability systems are printed on product packaging and scanned with a smartphone to authenticate and track products.[33][34] The company provides a free app to consumers which can be used to scan products with the copy detection pattern and help detect counterfeits.[35][36][37] Scanning of a code with a smartphone can also offer a traceability feature with origin and supply chain information made about the product made available[38][39] An enterprise app is also provided for employees, distributors and forensic inspections.[40]

References
  1. Wu, Xun (Brian) (2019). Hyperledger Cookbook. Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing. Section 10.3.2 (entire section). ISBN 978-1-78953-488-7. OCLC 1119461161. ScanTrust provides a blockchain-based IoT platform that connects products and packaging using secure unique identifiers
  2. Morris, Nicky (2018-08-17). "ScanTrust's anti-counterfeit solution isn't just about blockchain". Ledger Insights - enterprise blockchain. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
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  4. Mehra, Abhinav (March 2020). "Behind Every Smart Product Is Smart Packaging". Food and Beverage Technology Review. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  5. Chavanne, Yannick (2017-05-05). "La technologie de ScanTrust utilisée par un spécialiste du vide". ICT Journal (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  6. De Weerdt, Lieven (2019-10-15). "Nexans ScanTrust: installing in confidence". Nexans. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  7. "ScanTrust introduces authentication solution for HP Indigo digital presses". NS Packaging. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  8. "Argentina's New Fiscal Stamps for Seed Industry". Tax Stamps & Traceability News. 9. April 2017.
  9. Corset, Jean-Marc (2016-05-09). "QR Codes Swiss made pour lutter contre le piratage des produits" [Swiss Made QR Codes to fight against product piracy] (PDF). 24 Heures.
  10. Wolfensberger, K. (2015-12-29). "Schweizer Start-up sagt Fälschern den Kampf an" [Swiss start-up declares war on counterfeiters]. www.20min.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  11. "La start-up lausannoise ScanTrust distinguée par Venture Kick" [Lausanne-based start-up ScanTrust honoured by Venture Kick]. Le Temps (in French). 2014-12-03. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  12. Bloch, Ghislaine (2015-05-04). "ScanTrust lève ses premiers fonds externes" [ScanTrust raises its first external funds]. Le Temps (in French). ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  13. "Scantrust lutte contre la contrefaçon grâce à des QR code" [Scantrust fights against counterfeiting with QR codes] (in French). L'Agefi. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
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  25. BV, Siteworkers. "Directe controle op echtheid certificaten" [Direct verification of authenticity certificates]. NEN (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-05-05.
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  28. Chen, Changsheng; Li, Mulin; Ferreira, Anselmo; Huang, Jiwu; Cai, Rizhao (2020). "A Copy-Proof Scheme Based on the Spectral and Spatial Barcoding Channel Models". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 15: 1056–1071. doi:10.1109/tifs.2019.2934861. ISSN 1556-6013. Specifically, compared with the existing CDP(Copy Detection Pattern)-based approaches (represented by the ScanTrust technology [5], [13]–[15]), the contributions of the proposed authentication scheme can be summarised as follows.
  29. Da, Xi (2018-02-08). "二维码易被仿造？「ScanTrust」为产品厂商提供低成本、可靠的二维码防伪、溯源服务 _详细解读_最新资讯_热点事件_36氪" [Is the QR code easy to be faked? "ScanTrust" provides low-cost and reliable QR code anti-counterfeiting and traceability services for product manufacturers]. 36Kr (in Chinese). Retrieved 2020-06-16.
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  31. Thind, Gurpreet (2020-02-13). "ScanTrust joins LTO Network to work on blockchain QR codes". Cryptopolitan. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  32. de Ruyter de Wildt, Marieke; van Ginkel, Menno; Coppoolse, Kirsten; van Maarseveen, Bart; Walton, Jenny; Kruseman, Gideon (2019). Blockchain for food: Making sense of technology and the impact on biofortified seeds. CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture. pp. 17 and 31. OCLC 1141263493. By scanning the QR-code you access the product information stored in the blockchain. ScanTrust is a solution with patented QR-codes that can’t be reprinted and put on another product. Therefore, a sealed bag with a scannable ScanTrust QR-code contains the same products during all stages of the supply chain.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  33. EPFL Annual Report (PDF). Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. 2015. p. 42.
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  37. "ScanTrust APP下载-ScanTrust防伪下载v1.5安卓版-西西软件下载" [ScanTrust Anti-Counterfeit v1.5 Android Edition]. www.cr173.com (in Chinese). 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
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  39. Ali, I., Satie, S., & Thai, V. (2020). Adopting Industry 4.0 Technologies in Agri-Food Supply Chains: An Exploratory Investigation of Drivers and Barriers. In E. Aktas, M. Bourlakis, I. Minis, & V. Zeimpekis (Eds.), Supply Chain 4.0: Improving Supply Chains with Analytics and Industry 4.0 Technologies (pp. 1-20). UK: Kogan Page. Page 2. "An IoT-supported digital food packaging system (for example, ScanTrust) integrates internet with 2-D bar codes (Hadsel-Mares, 2017) printed on labels, cartons, and documents. Scanning of a code with a smartphone allows consumers to trace back information about the product and actively converse with the products’ supplier(s). Barcodes also allow businesses to track the product at all stages through the distribution channel and to facilitate the collection of statistics about individual consumers, thus potentially improve the control of product quality along the SC and facilitate response to customers’ needs in a more effective way (Hadsel-Mares, 2017)."
  40. "司诚企业版app下载-司诚企业版v1.4.1 安卓版-腾牛安卓网" [Scantrust Enterprise Edition v1.4.1 Android Edition]. www.qqtn.com (in Chinese). 2019-06-21. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
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