Smart certification: protecting the originality of the product in the eyewear sector

Abstract

The growing diffusion of the technologies related to the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm not only facilitates the connectivity among a huge amount of different devices, but also the variety of applications and services which can be provided to users. Everyday objects, equipped with the technologies involved in such a paradigm, become smart and are able to guarantee users who own them to be connected “always, in any place, at any time and with any object”. Consequently, the opportunity of communicating in real time enables the design and development of novel customizable functionalities, which are even closer to the needs of the users. Different application domains can benefit from this innovation, including the ophthalmology and eyewear sector. In such a context, the lenses and the eyeglasses frames become smart, thanks to the adoption of IoT paradigm. A relevant application in such an area concerns the definition of a system able to guarantee the originality of the product (and, so, verify the certification), as well as preventing the spread of imitations and counterfeit products, recognizing them in real time. In this paper, a preliminary approach for solving such emerged issues is proposed. More in detail, the main requirements and involved functionalities are pointed out and represented in a coherent flow, through Node-RED, which is a flow-based programming tool targeted to support the design and development of IoT applications.