TY - GEN
T1 - Secure rural supply chain management using low cost paper watermarking
AU - Sharma, Ashlesh
AU - Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan
AU - Brewer, Eric A.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Supply chain systems in rural developing regions are extremely fragile and are vulnerable to a wide range of security threats including theft, fraud and counterfeit goods. In this paper, we propose the design of a secure, low cost supply chain management system that leverages cheap cellphones and a low-cost paper watermarking system that can authenticate and verify the integrity of goods in a supply chain. Unlike many sophisticated solutions which have deployment problems due to the harsh ground realities in rural regions, our system is easy to use, deploy and does not require significant changes to the existing operational model. In addition, our system relies only on paper and cellphones, both of which are ubiquitously used in rural developing regions.
AB - Supply chain systems in rural developing regions are extremely fragile and are vulnerable to a wide range of security threats including theft, fraud and counterfeit goods. In this paper, we propose the design of a secure, low cost supply chain management system that leverages cheap cellphones and a low-cost paper watermarking system that can authenticate and verify the integrity of goods in a supply chain. Unlike many sophisticated solutions which have deployment problems due to the harsh ground realities in rural regions, our system is easy to use, deploy and does not require significant changes to the existing operational model. In addition, our system relies only on paper and cellphones, both of which are ubiquitously used in rural developing regions.
KW - Paper authentication
KW - Paper speckle
KW - Supply chain
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U2 - 10.1145/1397705.1397711
DO - 10.1145/1397705.1397711
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70249147280
SN - 9781605581804
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Conference on Computer Communications -2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR'08
SP - 19
EP - 24
BT - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Conference on Computer Communications-2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR'08
T2 - ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Conference on Computer Communications - 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR'08
Y2 - 17 August 2008 through 22 August 2008
ER -