CN102737325A - Cigarette anti-counterfeiting system based on electronic tags - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a cigarette anti-counterfeiting middleware system structure based on electronic tags, relating to a non-contact type automatic identification technology. The structure comprises a workshop system, an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices) service process system, an enterprise middleware system, a cloud communication and verification system and a terminal system. The workshop system is used for finishing the configuration of relative hardware equipment of an RFID to finish tag sticking of cigarettes; the RFID service process system is used for finishing the generation of RFID tags and processing data transmitted by the workshop system to form event formats including an ALE (Application Link Enable) and the like to be transmitted to an event bus of the RFID; the event bus of the RFID passes through the whole anti-counterfeiting system; the enterprise middleware system is mainly used for managing parts of the middleware system and simultaneously realizing positioning and tracking of the cigarettes in a production and flowing process; and the cloud communication and verification system is used for realizing the communication between enterprise middleware and a terminal user to finish the checking of cigarette anti-counterfeiting. Compared with identification technologies of a bar code, infrared rays and the like, the cigarette anti-counterfeiting middleware system structure based on the electronic tags has the characteristics of obvious safety, advancement, uniqueness, operability and the like.

Description

An Anti-counterfeiting System for Cigarettes Based on Electronic Tag

technical field

The invention relates to a non-contact automatic identification technology (RFID). Based on the transmission characteristics of spatial inductance and electromagnetic coupling of radio frequency information, an RFID anti-counterfeiting system is designed for a large number of tobacco companies to realize the identification of cigarettes in the production, distribution and sales process. Automatic identification and tracking of cigarettes, so as to achieve automatic anti-counterfeiting of cigarettes.

Background technique

The tobacco industry has low input costs, simple production and high profits, so anti-counterfeiting of stick cigarettes has always been one of the key points and difficulties in this field. According to statistics, my country consumes 1.8 trillion cigarettes annually, accounting for about 35% of the world's total, of which 100 billion counterfeit cigarettes are consumed each year, causing financial losses of about 70 billion to the country. Therefore, it has become a common goal of manufacturers and anti-counterfeiting industries to adopt effective anti-counterfeiting technology to protect the country's taxation and maintain the interests of manufacturers, brand reputation and consumer rights.

Anti-counterfeiting technology refers to the technical means adopted to identify authenticity and prevent counterfeiting and forgery in order to achieve the purpose of anti-counterfeiting. Simply put, it is a proactive measure to prevent imitation, duplication or counterfeiting and sales of other people's products without the permission of the trademark owner. At present, the most widely used tobacco anti-counterfeiting technologies in the market include paper watermarking technology, ink technology, laser holographic image anti-counterfeiting technology, bar code technology and telephone code technology. These anti-counterfeiting technologies have played an anti-counterfeiting role in a certain procedure, but they cannot eradicate fake and inferior products. This is mainly because these techniques have several disadvantages as follows. First of all, the technical content is not high, it is easy to be imitated, and the service life is short (for example, after a new visual anti-counterfeiting mark is launched, generally within 3 to 6 months, a large number of imitations will appear on the market). Secondly, the anti-smudge ability is poor, and once it is stained, it will affect the identification. Another example is that the information cannot be modified, the recognition distance is short, the security performance is poor, and the standards are not uniform.

As one of the most important technologies in the new generation of near field communication (NFC), radio frequency identification (RFID) has three basic functions of identification, positioning and tracking. Using RFID technology for anti-counterfeiting, compared with other technologies, has the advantage that each tag has a globally unique number, which is placed in ROM (read-only memory) when the chip is made, and cannot be modified and prevented. This essentially eliminates the possibility of label duplication. In addition, the use of RFID has significant advantages such as miniaturization, diverse shapes, strong anti-pollution ability, strong resistance, reusability, good penetration, and large data memory capacity. As a high-tech and information standardization basis for fast, real-time and accurate collection and processing of information, RFID technology has been recognized as one of the key technologies for realizing the Internet of Things strategy in my country's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan".

And because there are many kinds of RFID on the market, the working frequency is different, and the functions realized are also different. In general, each RFID product requires special readers and other hardware products as well as specialized data processing tools. This not only produces high hardware costs, but also is not conducive to the interaction of data between different organizations.

Contents of the invention

In order to overcome the problems of poor anti-interference ability, low security and non-repeatability of the existing anti-counterfeiting technology, the present invention proposes an RFID-based cigarette anti-counterfeiting system according to the international and industry standards of RFID, thereby realizing the And the anti-counterfeiting function in the circulation process.

The present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions:

An electronic tag-based cigarette anti-counterfeiting system, including a workshop system, an RFID business process system, an enterprise middleware system, a cloud communication and verification system, and a terminal system; the workshop system completes the processing of RFID-related hardware equipment in the workshop to realize the Labeling; the enterprise middleware system processes the RFID tags transmitted from the workshop system to implement encryption, collects these data to form ALE events and transmits them to the RFID event bus, and at the same time, the enterprise middleware components also manage multiple connected workshop system, and adjust itself according to the actual situation; the cloud communication and verification system uses the massive data processing function of cloud computing to process the RFID label data, and then receives the anti-counterfeiting request to realize the anti-counterfeiting query; the RFID business process system starts from The lower layer receives the original event or ALE event, processes it according to the established business process, and interacts with the enterprise application system; the RFID event bus runs through the entire middleware system, and on this bus, all required event services All components are registered in the above-mentioned event bus in a plug-in manner. With the extension of the event bus, events will carry more RFID application systems to complete corresponding business logic, and then the corresponding RFID will process these events; the terminal system Near-field communication technology can be used in the terminal to realize real-time positioning, identification and tracking of anti-counterfeiting cigarettes.

Specifically, in the system structure of the present invention, the cigarette workshop system completes the transformation of the cigarette production line, implants RFID tags on the cigarettes, and completes the labeling. The RFID business process mainly completes the writing of the anti-counterfeiting code. In this step, the anti-counterfeiting server will first collect the RFID tags on the cigarettes, and write a unique anti-counterfeiting identification code in the user area of the tags. For the sake of safety, the present invention not only encrypts the anti-counterfeiting identification code, but also identifies the reader and the label, so as to realize the many-to-one binding between the reader and the specialty store. The enterprise middleware system is responsible for the storage of data such as anti-counterfeiting, logistics, and sales. On the one hand, this component abstracts, summarizes, and composes the original and complex sensing events of the RFID tag data transmitted by the cigarette workshop system. Specifically, the The component generates events according to the RFID business process system; on the other hand, the component manages multiple connected cigarette shop systems according to the anti-counterfeiting request. In order to ensure the performance of the enterprise middleware system, the RFID bus system is designed for this part. On this bus, all components that need event services are registered in the event bus in a plug-in manner. With the extension of the event bus, events will carry more RFID application systems to complete the corresponding business logic, and then the corresponding RFID to handle these events. The cloud communication and verification system is a component for realizing label data storage and anti-counterfeiting verification. The component first dumps the anti-counterfeiting data in the enterprise middleware. Next, it receives anti-counterfeiting requests from anti-counterfeiting terminals such as specialty stores and individuals, performs verification, and then returns the verification results to the requester. The terminal system refers to a system deployed for tobacco specialty stores and individual users, involving RFID readers and communication systems between readers and desktop systems. Fixed and mobile RFID readers are connected to the desktop system through the Internet to read and identify RFID tags within a specific space, and then use the desktop system to perform anti-counterfeiting verification to the cloud communication and verification system.

The present invention uses RFID and the above-mentioned anti-counterfeiting idea to establish a series of anti-counterfeiting technologies for cigarettes, including hardware transformation technology, anti-counterfeiting mark generation technology, cloud communication and verification technology, and real-time anti-counterfeiting technology for terminal cigarettes. Among them, the hardware transformation technology to realize the labeling of cigarettes mainly includes the transformation of the production line of the tobacco factory and the configuration of the labeling machine, automatic labeling and real-time detection. The real-time inspection section is responsible for filtering out those cigarettes with incorrect RFID tags before they are repackaged and labeled. The anti-counterfeit mark generation technology mainly implants a piece of encrypted data (that is, the anti-counterfeit mark) into the data area of the RFID tag. At the same time, this technology will also implant an anti-counterfeit mark on the RFID reader to realize the verification of the reader itself. The anti-counterfeiting data contains three kinds of information: the globally unique and constant identification, the anti-counterfeiting identification code and the anti-counterfeiting verification code part. The only constant identification is provided by the label manufacturer; while the anti-counterfeiting identification code and anti-counterfeiting verification code are provided by the cigarette anti-counterfeiting service provider. Cloud communication and verification technology mainly combines the current advanced concepts of the Internet of Things and cloud computing, with the help of the Internet, wireless communication and mobile devices, etc., to realize the storage and query verification of anti-counterfeiting data, and strive to be at the cigarette level in the tobacco production and circulation link. Real-time identification, location and tracking of tobacco on the Internet. Considering the production scale of cigarettes and the noise of RFID data, the cigarette anti-counterfeiting system will collect a large amount of RFID sensing data. For these data, cloud communication and verification technology will make full use of cloud storage, cloud distributed processing and fusion functions to realize the cleaning, transmission and application of RFID data. the

The present invention proposes an RFID-based cigarette anti-counterfeiting system, which uses the spatial inductance of radio frequency signals and the transmission characteristics of electromagnetic coupling to realize automatic identification of cigarettes. The energy transmits the tag information to the reader, and then directly transmits it to the application device through the reader or through a middleware connection, and finally the application device processes the information. Since the reader and the electronic tag are non-contact, this avoids misoperation caused by poor contact, and also avoids the influence of external harsh environments such as dust and oil on data reading and writing. The reader and the electronic tag adopt a wireless communication method, there is no direction requirement when used, the reading speed is fast, and it can identify high-speed moving body objects; the process of reading and writing does not require manual intervention, and the system is highly automated.

The RFID-based cigarette anti-counterfeiting system developed by the present invention has reconfigurability and scalability, and can conveniently add functions according to actual needs. Compared with the existing anti-counterfeiting technology, it has the following obvious characteristics:

1. The anti-counterfeiting ability of the present invention is more outstanding. The anti-counterfeiting mechanism of the present invention comprises three major components: a label, a reader and an anti-counterfeiting system. For any component, the present invention designs a corresponding anti-counterfeit mechanism to ensure the anti-counterfeit identification capability.

(1) For RFID tags, the present invention uses disposable passive tags. Once a stick has been used, the label on the stick is damaged and cannot be used again. Also, the cloud communication and authentication system will flag the tag as used. Simultaneously, the present invention also sets an effective lifespan for the label. Outside this period, the label will automatically expire and cannot be verified for anti-counterfeiting again.

(2) For RFID readers, the present invention directs procurement to ensure that each reader has a unique identification code. Then, distribute to end users and enroll in the cloud communication and verification system. At the same time, the present invention will require equipment manufacturers to embed anti-counterfeiting marks inside the RFID reader. The anti-counterfeiting mark is provided by the anti-counterfeiting mechanism of the present invention. When using a reader for anti-counterfeiting, it must first use its own anti-counterfeiting mark to verify itself.

(3) For anti-counterfeiting, the present invention mainly uses components such as anti-counterfeiting mechanism, cloud communication and verification. The anti-counterfeiting mechanism is mainly responsible for generating anti-counterfeiting marks, including the unique identification code of the label, anti-counterfeiting code and verification code; cloud communication and verification components use cloud security and other strategies to ensure the security of communication.

2. The present invention has stronger anti-interference ability. Even if there are obstacles, the RFID system developed by the invention can still work normally. Moreover, the present invention adopts the latest RFID tags (such as Alien 9662 model tags), which are embedded with conflict avoidance and mediation protocols, which greatly reduces the phenomenon of "dirty reading", "misreading" and "missing reading" of RFID tags. frequency, effectively improving the accuracy of tag recognition.

3. The present invention has higher security. The content stored in the RFID tag chip can be controlled according to application needs and authority restrictions, so that suitable personnel can read suitable data.

4. The scope of work of the present invention is farther. The invention supports a reading range from 0.1 meter to 30 meters, and supports wireless double-sided (front and back of an object) communication.

Description of drawings

The following figures further illustrate the present invention in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

Fig. 1 is the logical structure of the anti-counterfeiting system for rod cigarettes of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is the system structure of the anti-counterfeit system of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is the RFID event bus of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a system architecture diagram of the anti-counterfeiting system for rod cigarettes of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The anti-counterfeiting process of the present invention involves: RFID tags, RFID readers and anti-counterfeiting systems, using the massive data processing functions provided by cloud computing and the perception capabilities of information sensing devices such as RFID to achieve anti-counterfeiting of cigarettes, and its logical structure is shown in Figure 1. The technical solution of this embodiment mainly includes the following contents, which are the transformation of hardware to realize labeling of cigarettes, RFID business process system, enterprise middleware, cloud communication and verification, and terminal anti-counterfeiting system. In order to control the cost, the present invention mainly adopts passive tags.

1. Realize the labeling of cigarettes through hardware transformation

The realization of the hardware transformation of the present invention is to transform the production line in the tobacco factory, deploy RFID tags, realize the processes of automatic labeling, labeling and detection, and form a complete RFID labeling system for the tobacco factory.

2. RFID business process system

The RFID business process system of the present invention is mainly responsible for generating anti-counterfeiting marks. The anti-counterfeit mark includes the unique mark assigned to the label at the factory (this mark is unique globally), anti-counterfeit code and verification code. The anti-counterfeiting code is the main part of the anti-counterfeiting mark, and the bit length should be longer. Considering the size limitation of the label itself, the present invention adopts consistent hash technology to generate 128-bit anti-counterfeiting codes. In the present invention, there will be 2 ¹²⁸ ≈ 3.2*10 ³⁸ candidate sets of anti-counterfeiting codes. In this way, the probability of anti-counterfeiting code conflict is very, very small. The verification code is a 4 to 8-digit code, which is a combination of label identification and anti-counterfeiting code, and is usually placed at the end.

3. Tobacco anti-counterfeiting system

The tobacco anti-counterfeiting system proposed by the present invention mainly includes workshop system, RFID business process system and enterprise middleware, cloud communication and verification system, etc., including the following steps:

1. The workshop system mainly deals with the RFID-related hardware equipment in the workshop, realizes the labeling of cigarettes, completes the capture and analysis of basic data, and finally transmits the data to the middle-level system for further processing.

2. The RFID business process system receives the original event from the lower layer, processes it according to the established business process, and interacts with the enterprise middleware; it is also responsible for processing the data transmitted by the workshop system and forming an event format such as ALE and transmitting it to the event bus superior.

3. Enterprise middleware, which mainly manages multiple connected workshop systems and manages the components of the RFID middleware system. At the same time, it also realizes the storage and transfer of anti-counterfeiting data to the cloud environment. In addition, the enterprise middleware also records all links in the production and circulation of cigarettes, such as the anti-counterfeiting label and distribution of readers.

4. The above three parts are connected by the RFID event bus, and all components that require event services are registered in the event bus in the form of plug-ins. The RFID event bus runs through the entire RFID middleware system, as shown in Figure 2 below, including the following steps: a) Register all components that require event services to the event bus in the form of plug-ins; b) With the extension of the bus, events will Carry more RFID business feature information, these events are processed by the corresponding RFID business components, and assist the RFID application system to complete the corresponding business logic; c) Events on the event bus can also be released to users who need to read through the event distribution component The RFID application system of this event, this type of distribution event and its distribution interface conform to the ALE standard.

5. Cloud communication and verification system. The application of RFID in the tobacco industry presents large-scale and industrial characteristics, so a large amount of RFID sensing data will be generated. Based on the mass storage function of cloud computing, the present invention stores the RFID anti-counterfeiting data in the enterprise cloud. Since the RFID data is characterized by a lot of noise, the present invention will use statistical algorithms to process and filter the data. Finally, with the help of the cloud, the present invention can quickly receive and respond to anti-counterfeit requests, and effectively overcomes the limitation of concurrent access, providing end users with better experience.

6. Real-time anti-counterfeiting terminal system.

A) Real-time anti-counterfeiting of cigarettes: Since the whole production and circulation of cigarettes involves the fields of production, logistics and specialty stores, this embodiment aims at the production and circulation process of cigarettes, and develops the labeling of tobacco factories, circulation tracking, and specialty store tracking And users' near-field query and other systems have realized the unquestionable tracking and anti-counterfeiting of cigarette production and distribution links. Real-time identification, positioning and tracking of tobacco at the level of cigarettes, and near-field query of products by using technologies such as near-field communication. In this embodiment, according to the characteristics of smart phones such as iPhone and Nokia, a module for reading RFID tags by iPhone is developed to realize a near-field anti-counterfeiting system. In the specialty store, this embodiment learns from the anti-counterfeiting experience of Wuliangye specialty store, and develops the anti-counterfeiting system of the cigarette specialty store.

B) Guarantee system for cigarette sticks: Aiming at the problem that the actual application environment is complex and there are many interference factors, the present invention develops an RFID performance guarantee system based on theoretical research. The system mainly includes anechoic chamber environment, high and low temperature humidity immersion scene, mobile scene, gate scene, logistics sorting scene, production line and station node scene, system integration, multi-label environment and performance guarantee in various attachment environments. The following technologies are mainly used in the system to ensure the reliability of the system in terms of performance, compatibility and compatibility. Among them, the three most important technologies are:

i) Sensing and identification technology, mainly using RFID tags and sensors to perceive and locate objects and users; ii) Near field communication technology, mainly used to support users and various terminals, using near field such as Bluetooth, WiFi and ZigBee Communication technology obtains the information of the object or product to be queried in real time; iii) Intelligent gateway technology, the present invention is mainly aimed at the tobacco factory anti-counterfeiting at the level of cigarettes, and the RFID system applied works in the internal network of the tobacco factory and the external network of the tobacco factory , store network, public network and patent data network and other networks. Use intelligent gateways to traverse different networks to break through network restrictions.

The technology of the present invention can realize anti-counterfeiting and traceability query functions, focusing on solving the anti-counterfeiting query and traceability query accurate to each cigarette, using RFID technology to associate with production, circulation, distribution and consumption links, and to collect and store all links in a timely and accurate manner data to provide dealers and consumers with anti-counterfeiting traceability service functions; it can realize the functions of anti-smuggling and anti-package loss. The RFID tags on it can correspond to the relevant behaviors in the source channel, circulation process and sales links, and prevent the behaviors of fleeing goods and subcontracting in the circulation process; it can realize the logistics management function, based on the existing logistics process, by integrating the RFID label information Combining with the existing vehicle positioning and GPR map system, it can realize the management of inbound and outbound, warehouse transfer, and store receipt, realize the supervision of the whole process, and provide end-to-end services.

Claims (4)

1. the bar cigarette Antiforge system based on electronic tag is characterized in that, this system comprises workshop system, RFID business procedure system, enterprise's middleware system, cloud communication and verification system and terminal system; The processing of said workshop system finishing department RFID related hardware equipment, the decals of realization bar cigarette; Said enterprise middleware system is handled the RFID label realization encryption that said workshop system transmits; Collecting these data forms ALE incidents and is transferred on the event bus of RFID; Simultaneously, said enterprise middleware component is also managed the workshop system of a plurality of connections, and adjusts voluntarily according to actual conditions; Said cloud communication and verification system utilize the mass data processing function of cloud computing that the RFID label data is handled, and receive false proof request then, realize Antiforge inquiry; Said RFID business procedure system receives primitive event or ALE incident from lower floor, according to the business procedure of formulating it is handled, and carries out alternately with enterprise application system; The event bus of said RFID is to run through whole middleware system; On this bus; Need all the member of Event Service all to be registered in the above-mentioned event bus with the plug-in unit mode; Along with the extension of said event bus, incident will be carried more RFID application systems and accomplished correspondent service logic, handle these incidents by corresponding RFID then; Said terminal system can be utilized the near-field communication technology at the terminal, realizes the false proof real-time positioning of bar cigarette, identification and tracking.

2. a kind of bar cigarette Antiforge system according to claim 1 based on electronic tag; It is characterized in that; Be responsible for generating anti-counterfeiting mark by said RFID business procedure system, anti-counterfeiting mark comprises unique sign, security code and the identifying code that label distributes when dispatching from the factory; Wherein, security code is the long encrypted code of a segment length; Identifying code is the combination of RFID tag identifier and security code.

3. a kind of bar cigarette Antiforge system based on electronic tag according to claim 2 is characterized in that, 128 security codes that said security code produces for the consistance hash algorithm.

4. utilize the technology of a kind of bar cigarette Antiforge system based on electronic tag as claimed in claim 1; It is characterized in that; In the production run of bar cigarette, transform original production line earlier, the configuration automatic labeling machine; After the encapsulation of every cigarette is accomplished, on every cigarette, implant the RFID label by automatic labeling machine; Then, by said RFID business procedure system, write security code and check code toward the RFID label, and be registered in the storehouse; In the process of tobacco circulation, in the storehouse, write logistics time, vehicle, logistics statistics and positional information, like this, when having only every cigarette to confirm its electronic identity, accumulating history and destination information, this cigarette just can be sold; At final sales section; Use the RFID label on the said terminal system scan stripes cigarette; Real-time reading tag data and upload to data center's database and differentiate that data center's database feeds back to the inquiry in real time with recognition result and identification result, accomplishes false proof discriminating.

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