MBaaS-based Authentication service for handicraft products traceability system

Abstract

Counterfeiting is copying a product without having the right. It affects all manufacturing sectors, mainly, the craft sector. Authentication is a solution to prevent handicraft products from counterfeiting. According to ISO (international organization for standardization) 27001, authentication is defined as the process used to conform that a claimed characteristics or attributes that appears to be true is in fact true. With the aim of guaranteeing the authenticity of product, various methodological approaches have been devised over the past years and several authentication schemes have been proposed. Although it is a widely discussed and studied topic, authentication remains a crucial issue.More specifically, the main issue that the craft sector is facing is the lack of a structure for communicating a product information requested by the customer (e.g. tourist) due to the organization of the craft industry. As a result, several questions are emerging which authentication system for the craft industry. How to collect the product data and make it available to this system while guaranteeing its quality? How to guarantee a real time answer to the user (e.g. tourist)?Thereby, the project we are developing is oriented towards the management of data related to the product manufactured by Moroccan artisans to preserve its authenticity. Our objective is to conceive a traceability system to manage the information of handicraft product throughout its life cycle based on smartest authentication technologies and features.The Mobile Backend as a service (MBaaS) will help for sharing authentication information about goods in real time, as the request of the customer, in other way, this service will provide the answer about the product authenticity.