A Review on Counterfeit Detection of Products and Electronic Devices

The problem of using unauthorized parts, components or products is widespread all around the world. These problems eventually cause a huge loss to the brands. To reduce such malpractices, brands are working on to find out a solution to overcome counterfeit. Counterfeit is basically a non-genuine or a non-brand product. The counterfeit device carries false information and can mislead us claiming about its good performance. The device infringes the intellectual property rights of the registered owner. We need to ensure that the equipment is manufactured and developed according to the requirements. Procurement team members need to establish and maintain robust obtainment processes to minimize the risk of buying non-submissive and counterfeit devices parts and find out a solution that detects the counterfeit parts. RFID tags and readers, DNA and PUF technologies, Cryptography techniques, labeling barcodes can provide a solution to counterfeit product detection problem. This paper compares the parameters and performance criteria of some of the detection techniques.