Smart protection of company property

Thanks to the development of technology in recent years, new ways of protecting company property have appeared - from bearing to intellectual property. Let's talk about the technologies presented at the InCoForum International Forum in October.

Smart marking

Theft, loss of inventory (goods and materials) is a problem that many companies face in their activity in various sectors of the domestic economy. And on the Ukrainian market there was such an innovative way to solve it, as QR marking.

The fields of application of this technology are manufacturing, agriculture (tracking BIG BAG, plant protection products, fertilizers), transport enterprises.

QR marking allows for modern inventory and inventory of goods and materials, track the life cycle of parts (from the warehouse to disposal), control their installation on equipment, monitor the time worked by the goods and materials on equipment, and minimize theft.

“We not only label inventory items,” says Kirill Pryanikov, SEO company QRSmarty, “we first audit the business processes in the company, including warehouse and production logistics, IT processes, give recommendations for setting them up, then we implement a ready-made solution or we develop software for the needs of the client. Then we introduce the processes of marking goods and materials, conduct training for customer personnel and analyze the results. ”

Bearings, cables, circular and scrap knives - any equipment and parts in production can be marked. This allows you to control the worked time of the tool, spare parts on the equipment, to analyze the quality of parts and their wear for timely replacement.

A wide field for the use of QR marking is opened in agricultural enterprises, where there is a high risk of theft of plant protection products (plant protection products), seeds and fertilizers. “First of all, we need the correct configuration of business processes. All containers must be marked and returned to the warehouse to those who took it. And this must be controlled: goods and materials were scanned before shipment, then - after the return of the container. The owner’s mobile phone shows the time of use of goods and materials, who took it, when and who returned it, what are the balances in the warehouse, ”explains Kirill Pryanikov.

Marking can be done in different ways: these are printed stickers, a manual ink-based marker, shock-dot marking, laser engraving of information on a part, electrochemical marking, stencil coating, and the use of seals.

The QRSmarty solution itself is stored on a separate cloud server. An entrepreneur can purchase ready-made licensed software or order a monthly subscription. Customized solutions are created for large companies.
The main working terminal is mobile applications in the smartphones of employees who work with goods and materials. They must read the codes every time, moving goods and materials.

Data is integrated with ERP systems such as 1C, SAP. Statistics on the location, quantity, and operating time of goods and materials is displayed on the administrative panel of the decision owner, and he can do analytics based on specific operational data.

The results shown by today's Metinvest and MHP clients are a reduction in the risk of theft of spare parts and inventory, operational information on the location of goods and materials (warehouse, equipment), analytics on the durability of spare parts, and optimization of inventory.

Smart contracts

Blockchain technology is applicable to ordinary business. They are used in security engineering to preserve intellectual property.

“A smart contract is a computer algorithm whose purpose is to enter into and support the phased execution of commercial contracts in blockchain technology,” explains Igor Bykov, IT lawyer at Tsykhonya Lawyers Law Firm. “The terms of such an agreement can be interpreted by the system only unambiguously and also implemented by the system.”
It marks the time of transactions, cryptography is used - all for the sake of payment security.

Token signatures are being used by more and more companies instead of traditional electronic signatures. Typically, development companies also offer to implement transaction security protocols made by the buyer on your site, add APIs for servers and write mobile applications. After all, buyers want to be sure that their payment will not disappear on the way from the bank and the payment system to you.

All this is a new reality of information security, which is becoming more expensive as we move from ordinary to virtual electronic money and as the Internet of things spreads.