Abstrait

QR CODE AUTHENTICATION FOR PRODUCT USING CLOUD COMPUTING

Thiyagarajan M, Dinesh Kumar K

Product Authentication is one of the fundamental procedures to ensure the standard and quality of any product in the market. Counterfeit products are often offered to consumers as being authentic. Counterfeit consumer goods such as electronics, music, apparel, and Counterfeit medications have been sold as being legitimate. Efforts to control the supply chain and educate consumers to evaluate the packaging and labeling help ensure that authentic products are sold and used. However educating the consumer to evaluate the product is a challenging task. Our work ensures that the task is made as simple with the help of a camera enabled mobile phone supported with QR (Quick Response) Code Reader. We propose a model whereby the application in the mobile phone decodes the captured coded image and sends it through the Cloud Data Management Interface for authentication. The system then forwards the message to product manufacturer’s data center or any central database and the response received from the cloud enables the consumer to decide on the products authenticity. The authentication system is made as a pay per use model and thereby making it as a Security as a Service (Saas) architecture. The system is being implemented with a mobile toolkit in the cloud environment provided by the simulator Cloud Sim 1.0.