  Wine counterfeiting has been posing significant challenges to wine industry,
and has undermined the international wine trading market and the global economy
hugely. The situation of counterfeiting has even been exacerbating in wine
industry and global supply chain. There has been a number of
anti-counterfeiting approaches which have been proposed and adopted utilizing
different authentication technologies, in response to growing threats of
counterfeiting to wine industry. The proposed NFC-Enabled Anti-Counterfeiting
System (NAS) is developed for luxury-good industry such as wine industry,
aiming at upholding provenance and authenticity of wine products from
counterfeits via the product pedigree, transaction records and supply chain
integrity maintained along the supply chain. Consumers can therefore safeguard
their stake by authenticating a specific wine product with their NFC-enabled
smartphones before purchasing at the retail points. NAS utilizes Near-field
Communication (NFC), which has emerged as a promising technology and
communication protocol for developing innovative alternatives, to facilitate
the wine record processing of wine products and in turn combat wine and spirit
counterfeiting. The integrated NAS is consisted of a wide range of hardware and
software components, and the best combination of settings, parameters and
deployments will therefore be identified. Other possible implementation issues,
such as tag selection, tag programming and encryption, setup of back-end
database servers and the design of NFC mobile application will also be
discussed in this project. The critical design of NAS is vital not only to the
key of product anti-counterfeiting of wine industry, but also to the strong
foundation for other innovative supply chain solutions, such as the NFC-enabled
purchasing system, developed on top of NAS with improved and integrated
anti-counterfeiting functionalities.
