RFID: Revolutionary breakthroughs in alcohol anti-counterfeiting technology

Radio frequency identification technology (RFID) can achieve tracking and information sharing of items in the global scope through integration with Internet technology. It is the direction of the development of enterprise information in the future. The RFID anti-counterfeiting system and method based on RFID technology, using large-scale integrated circuit manufacturing, has the characteristics of high processing difficulty, low cost, and can be used by enterprises for product information authentication, and will bring revolutionary breakthroughs to alcohol anti-counterfeiting technology.

This solution applies RFID technology to alcohol and other containers with caps to achieve product counterfeiting through the bottle structure design and background authentication system. The system consists of specially designed bottle caps and bottles, RFID readers, communication networks and anti-counterfeit database servers. When the wine bottle is opened, the sharp surface of the cutting device located at the bottle mouth of the wine bottle will cut off the connection between the antenna and the chip, so that the RFID reader cannot read the code of the top chip of the bottle cap, thereby preventing the second use of the bottle. . In addition to the radio frequency chip having a unique code in this system, the reader has a unique code and is registered in the winery or a third-party anti-counterfeiting database. The unique code of the reader is bound with the registered user (usually the store or restaurant of the sales terminal), and only the registered reader can query the coded information of the chip. Therefore, only the goods sold in the formal channels can access the security database. For consumers, the authenticity of the wine can be judged by looking at the information on the seller's display screen.

With regard to the implementation of this system, liquor manufacturers need only install RFID-related equipment in the production process of the lid and bottle of the original production line, and establish a security database. Manufacturers use integrated technology to add dedicated radio frequency chips and antennas to the original bottle cap and bottle body, and register these tags to the product information in the anti-counterfeiting database. At the same time, a dedicated reader/writer device with a cost of several hundred dollars is provided to the sales wholesaler or hotel salesman of the product, and it is required to register it in the anti-counterfeiting database. In this way, for the manufacturer, not only can all the sales terminal branches of the product be understood based on the information provided by the reader, but also statistics can be made on the sales situation.

The specific method of using the system is as follows: For the unopened wine bottle, a radio frequency chip is attached on the inner side of the top of the bottle cap, and is connected to the metal strips at different positions on the bottle cap through a chip lead attached to the inner side of the cap wall, which is located on the bottle body. The antenna body is connected with the metal strip to form a channel. The cutting device on the bottle cap is located between the radio frequency chip and the antenna body. The sharp surface of the cap can cut off the connection between the two and the antenna body, and the radio frequency identification reads. The writer reads the code of the RF tag and sends it to the anti-counterfeit database server for authentication through the short message with the unique code of the reader. If both codes are authorized, the writer will pass the verification and send back the confirmation message; the bottle will be cut once opened. The device will destroy the antenna and the radio frequency chip will not be able to obtain enough excitation voltage to fail, so as to realize commodity anti-counterfeiting.