Digital protection to fight wine and spirits counterfeiting

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE: INSIDE Secure a provider in embedded security solutions for mobile and connected devices, and Selinko, the object identification company, announced the availability of CapSeal, a smart, patent-pending and secure system to fight counterfeiting in the wine and spirits market. This solution, is aimed at solving the bottle refill problem, an increasing threat to the industry.

By using an NFC (Near Field Communication) smartphone or device to scan the chip embedded in the tag and the Selinko mobile application platform, any industry player or consumer can verify the authenticity of the bottle, confirming that it has not been previously opened. The chip confirms that the capsule on the bottle has not been tampered with and the cork has not been removed.

CapSeal solution is certified against the worldwide certification standard (Common Criteria certification, EAL5+ level used for Electronic Passport-certification) and smart packaging solution. Combined with Selinko's application platform, CapSeal is providing the wine and spirits industry a secure solution to solve counterfeiting and refilling problems.

Patrick Eischen, CEO at Selinko, said: "There is a strong demand from our customers to adopt a system that prevents the fraudulent refilling of bottles of wine and spirits and that can be easily implemented. INSIDE Secure's CapSeal combined with Selinko's platform is a technology breakthrough to tackle those problems."

The CapSeal system is compliant with existing capsule bottles. This is important to allow brands and wine and spirits producers to solve the refill problem without replacing their standard corks and bottle caps.

CapSeal consists of an INSIDE Secure VaultIC 150X chip connected to an antenna that is inserted on the neck of the bottle, just above the cork. To prevent anyone from refilling a bottle, the tag is mechanically deactivated when removing the capsule bottle.