WP1 – “Business and Technical Requirements Analysis”
The central role of this workpackage is to deliver valuable input for other workpackages, namely WP2, WP3 and WP4 by collecting and continuously observing business (target: WP2) and also technology (targets: WP3 and WP4) related requirements. Those generic requirements should be fulfilled, in order to develop effective and as generic as possible authentication solutions for different kinds of products in various market segments. It is important to note that this workpackage will run trough the entire project lifetime. Additionally, this workpackage will also continuously evaluate preliminary results whether they fulfil generic requirements, and will give new/additional impulses for research and development related WPs. Privacy, and how to achieve it, will be one of the main focus areas of the project. This will be first defined and analysed by the partner in WP1, prior to implementation and development in WP3, WP4 and WP5. It is a key requirement as well as motivation of the consortium end-users involved in the project especially Novartis, but also Richemont and Bundesdruckerei for whom a privacy compliant solution is mandatory. Accordingly, WP3 and WP4 (see below) will develop solutions that guarantee the safe handling of privacy sensitive data in the systems. Without pre-empting the project developments in this regard, it could be foreseen for example that the software and network side of the solution will comprise a backend system where specific access. Deliverables available...

WP2 – “Development of Business Impact Models”
The role of this WP is seen as critical within SToP, and targets an area that is often neglected or scarcely addressed in R&D projects. WP2 will provide the economic justification of pursuing the development and implementation of ambient intelligence technologies for product authentication purposes. This covers a detailed cost/benefit analysis for a number of affected industries and product classes that are all victims of forgers and/or illicit market activities.
The proposed benefit analysis is especially demanding: So far, no substantiated measures exist to quantify the impact of counterfeiting on individual companies. It is especially difficult to assess the impact on revenue as no sound standing models exist to estimate the substitution factor of original products by counterfeits. The substitution factors vary from one product category to the other; therefore, approximate calculations will be made at least for products within the fast moving consumer goods industry (e.g. razor blades, batteries), the luxury goods industry (e.g. jewellery, watches, etc.) and for exclusive apparel and accessories (e.g. leather handbags, sunglasses) as well as for spare parts (e.g., for aircraft, cars, machines). Moreover, financial damages due to the negative impact on quality perception, exclusivity and brand value of established products has to be estimated. Due to the high degree of difficulty of the business
case analysis, this workpackage has to be seen as an essential part of the research project. The (preliminary) results of this workpackage will also show up, whether the technical approaches  developed by WP3 and WP4 are feasible from the very important economical viewpoint and thus give new impulses to other workpackages to develop solutions, for instance, with reduced hardware costs. WP2 was conceived to help SToP be near to the real future market needs and guide its work towards nnovation and development of economically-reasonable approaches that will actually come to the arket and provide real solutions to real problems. Deliverables available...

WP3 - “Product Verification Infrastructure Development”
The major technical outcome of this workpackage is a system called the Product Verification nfrastructure. This infrastructure provides mobile and also stand-alone applications and devices with roper services and related managed data to verify products’ authenticity. This infrastructure will utilize novel concepts that will also mainly be developed by this workpackage. Our research work here will focus on the development of open, interoperable, fast and secure product authentication methods, i.e protocols that allow checking products’ authenticity by online/offline stand-alone and also resource constrained mobile devices, with special focus on mobile phones. We will also target specific  security issues related to so called ‘tag cloning attacks’. In addition, WP3 will develop concepts for the secure management of data (e.g. product history,
tracking & tracing information, timestamps etc.) that can be used to authenticate products, by combining the approaches ‘data-on-network’ and ‘data-on-tag’. For both of these approaches we will invent sophisticated access control concepts to the relevant data, and deal with issues, such as authentication, authorization, encryption and integrity protection. Furthermore, we will develop mechanisms for the secure delegation/revocation of access rights by/to parties involved on products’ manufacturing, distribution, delivery, etc. The proposed system will be architected in such a way as to  be interfaceable with all networks, and the consortium prefers not to change the current operator agnostic newtorking infrastructure approach. Deliverables available...

WP4 – “Solution Engineering”
This workpackage will conduct more ’hardware-related’ research. Thereby, we deal with the development of novel smart intelligence devices that can seamlessly be integrated into products and also be used during product authentication, by taking issues into consideration, such as the influence of metallic surfaces (e.g., airplane spare parts), fluids etc. on the process. Another focus of this workpackage is related to the development of the corresponding production and assembling processes and also the extensions on affected machines to produce smart and verifiable products. Here, our technology and engineering experts will focus on specific real-world manufacturing processes, for instance to produce ‘intelligent’ and authenticable luxury goods such as watches, jewellery or writing instruments (Richemont), spare parts (AD), printed documents (BDR) and pharmaceuticals (NPH). Deliverables available...