November, 15 we made the incredible announcement that EVRYTHNG is joining the Digimarc Corporation. My colleague, co-founder and CEO, Niall Murphy, wrote about what this latest development means for us as a business, as employees, as customers and partners in his blog. Now it’s my turn to share not just my thoughts but also highlights
The GS1 EPCIS 2.0 standard was released for public community review today, the last step before formal ratification of the standard. The time is right for EPCIS 2.0 as it provides a Web compatible universal language for supply chains, a critical building block for data interoperability in a world where supply chain transparency is demanded
Today, consumers expect end to end traceability, authenticity and engaging experiences from consumer product brands — from packaged goods to apparel items to pharmaceuticals. How do consumer brands deliver on these expectations? Not only deliver on expectations, but manage them throughout a product’s life cycle? Over the past year product digitization has become
We are very excited to announce a new partnership with Wiliot. Wiliot is one of the most groundbreaking technologies I’ve seen in recent years in the area of smart products. Wiliot has created a battery-free Bluetooth chip that harvests ambient energy in place of batteries. The innovative technology recycles the radio waves around us to
One of our big goals at EVRYTHNG is to change the way supply chain integrity and product authenticity issues are tackled. Issues like counterfeit products, gray market imports and the production of backdoor goods. Today most of these challenges are resolved using ‘material science’ techniques: putting ‘hard to copy’ tags on products. For example, tags
It has been more than a year since we started actively working with OriginTrail, one of our original Blockchain Integration Hub partners. It has been a productive year of collaboration, so I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the work we have been doing together. Facilitating data sharing amongst actors of apparel
Celebrating a year of milestones It has been a year since the launch of our Blockchain Integration Hub. A year full of milestones leading to real world deployments of products combining EVRYTHNG Active Digital IdentitiesTM and a mix of different blockchains. For instance, Almond launched FACT, a new drink brand digitized on the EVRYTHNG platform.
Frictionless Scanning of Products from the Web Consumers scan products these days for any number of reasons—to access product contents and provenance, claim rewards and special offers, or get some kind of brand experience. This engagement with the physical product is enabled by a simple smartphone scan of an on-pack trigger such as a QR
The problem of counterfeit goods in the consumer products industry continues to grow unchecked, with 2018 bringing revenue losses of $1.2 trillion*. It is abundantly clear that current anti-counterfeit measures aren’t able to address this hugely damaging trend. At EVRYTHNG we’ve been busy developing a brand protection solution which harnesses the power of machine learning
Since its launch a month ago, we have seen quite a bit of interest around the new GS1 Digital Link standard: the standard connecting all things to the Web! However, standards are always complex beasts and grasping their full powers requires reading lengthy documents. To help the community understand the powers of the Digital Link,