Smart Packaging Solutions (SPS) has developed a series of customised security features -Custom Module Image (CMI), Custom Antenna Image (CAI) and Custom Hinge Image (CHI) – that are built into the structure of a document itself.The company says these features are extremely easy for any law enforcement officer to check and almost impossible to counterfeit.More than 10 governments, including France, Nigeria, Peru and Gabon, have adopted the firm's customised security features. It says that using these features enable any law enforcement officer to visually check for the presence of government signs in the document without the need for dedicated equipment or extensive training.Dominique CharriÉ, product manager, identity, for SPS, says: "Our customised security features can be applied to any type of document: ID cards, passport inlays, passport datapages and so on. This way, governments can build a strong image by including their traditional coat of arms, for instance, in the most modern identity documents."CMI involves engraving an image specific to the issuing authority on the module of the card or passport. Typically, a government may choose to have its flag, coat of arms or any symbol on its modules.CAI enables authorities to design a specific antenna for contactless or dual interface cards and documents that includes distinctive signs. A national emblem, an acronym or a second form of the national emblem that's already part of the marked module or the card surface can be used as a distinctive sign. These signs can easily be controlled by transparency, just by exposing the card in front of a light, like a watermark in paper.CHI applies the same principles to the hinge of an ePassport booklet. The hinge includes a specific image, such as the issuing state's coat of arms, flag or any other symbol. This hinge image can be checked by eye by any officer.According to SPS, to check for the presence of these distinctive signs, a law enforcement officer needs only to know that the sign should be present and be equipped with a light source, such as a mobile phone torch.
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