Brand Protection and Consumer Engagement with EOS Seal Anti-Tamper Product Family
In today's world, businesses face increasing challenges in protecting their products from counterfeiting, product diversion, and unauthorized access. From pharmaceuticals to luxury goods and fine wines, ensuring product authenticity and integrity is critical. The Tageos Seal family of inlays with anti-tamper functionality offers an advanced layer of security, allowing businesses to safeguard their products while engaging with their customers in the digital world through their most personal device – the smartphone.
Enhancing Brand Protection and Product Safety with NFC-Enabled Anti-Tampering Tags
Seal family products provide all the benefits of NFC technology, from fast, secure contactless product authentication to enabling consumer engagement. With a simple tap of a smartphone, both the supply chain and the consumer can verify that a product is the genuine article, and consumers can also explore interactive experiences that provide more detailed information.
But the Seal family of inlays also provides important additional features in the form of two different anti-tamper technologies.
Two Different Technologies for Different Anti-Tampering Needs
Anti-tamper inlays are typically intended to ensure something is sealed shut, or they are sealed to the item itself. The family name “Seal” indicates what the products are meant for. Tageos will introduce future products with anti-tamper technologies under the same umbrella.
The first two products to be released under the Seal name are the EOS-920 Seal I3 TT and the EOS-925 Seal FA NTAG 213.
The EOS-920 Seal I3 TT is a 50 x 20mm tamper loop inlay. The tamper loop (indicated with TT, a common industry designation for this type of design) is a rectangular “tail” that extends from the main antenna coils and is used for anti-tamper protection in markets such as pharmaceuticals and premium wine, spirits and food or luxury items like fragrances and cigars. An intact tamper loop indicates an item is sealed; a broken loop means it has been tampered with. This enhances security and offers better protection against counterfeiting. The EOS-920 Seal I3 TT is powered by an NXP ICODE 3 TT tag chip and follows the ISO/IEC 15693 (Vicinity) / Type 5 Tag protocol, providing a longer read range.
The EOS-925 Seal FA NTAG 213 is a 25mm-diameter inlay with a fragile layer that was designed for customer experience and other standard NFC applications with the need for basic brand protection or anti-counterfeiting measures in the consumer goods and pharmaceutical markets. Fragile antenna technology (abbreviated as “FA”) includes a special layer that is designed to break the antenna easily when tampered with. The label might look whole on the outside, but it’s been rendered non-functional. This can be easily validated using a smartphone, either through a programmed on-chip URL or an app. This digital seal feature indicates if the product has been tampered with, providing a level of security that surpasses visual inspection alone. The EOS-925 Seal FA NTAG 213 uses the NXP NTAG 213 tag chip and follows the ISO/IEC 14443-A (Proximity) / Type 2 Tag protocol with a typical read range of a few centimeters.
Both inlays are available in dry, wet, and paper-face delivery formats.
If the currently available inlays don’t fit with a specific product or item type, our Innovation Center of Excellence can help to develop specialty antenna designs and/or tamper loop form factors to accommodate a broad variety of item shapes, materials and surfaces.
For further information about the Seal family of anti-tamper inlays, please contact our sales team.