The integrity of the global gold supply chain has been the subject of intense scrutiny of late, following a damning report by Swiss nongovernmental organisation SwissAid earlier this year, which claims that illicit gold trade amounts to between $23-billion and $35-billion a year.
FeaturePrint combines machine vision and patented algorithms to codify these inherent attributes to create a unique digital identity that can be used to “irrefutably identify, authenticate, and trace” a bar of gold or any other physical item. Any company or individual with the software can use a standard off-the-shelf digital camera or a mobile phone to identify, authenticate and trace an item.