Fake Product Detection Using Blockchain Using QR Code
J Kevin Timothy, R Lokesh, M. Tamil Thendral, P Meena, A Gnanasudharsan, S R Rithika, S Sreevarshan · 2023
Issues such as service duplication, inadequate departmental coordination, and a lack of standardization often plague supply chain management due to a lack of transparency. Counterfeiting has become increasingly prevalent, making it extremely difficult to visually identify counterfeit products. Counterfeiters cause significant challenges for legitimate firms, yet far too many people have no idea of the entire amount of counterfeit items’ influence on brands. Various approaches have been developed in the past to address the challenge of product counterfeiting. The most popular methods are using RFID tags, Artificial Intelligence, QR Code based systems, etc. Each of them had a few disadvantages such as the QR Code can be copied from a genuine product and placed on a fake product, artificial intelligence uses CNN and machine learning which needs heavy computational power and so on. The idea of this paper is to improve detection of fake products by linking product SN with customer ID in the seller’s system. This is achieved with Blockchain technology which ensures the identification and traceability of real products through QR Code. Blockchain based systems, makes everything decentralized. One of its main advantages is that the recorded data is difficult to change without the consent of all parties concerned which makes the data extremely secure and protected from all vulnerabilities.