In House Technology – 'Lamite':

Lamite is an acronym for “Layered hierarchical Multiple Independently Secured Tag encoding system”.

Lamite is dedicated to delivering the most comprehensive, flexible, convenient, and secure authentication platform. All of LAMITE software products are built on a standardized set of interfaces, modules, and services, and leverage the most advanced authentication technologies, including Biometrics, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology, Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) and Authentication Platform Provider.

Unlike Smart Cards, RFID Tags are not memory rich and do not have an embedded micro processor. Accordingly, while use of RFID has some significant application specific advantages, there is a need for securing the data that is written on any RFID Tag in a manner that the data so written on it.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are composed of RF tags and RF tag readers. Most tags consist of an antenna connected to a microchip. The use of silicon-based microchips enables a range of functionality to be integrated into the tags, including readable/writable storage and limited computing capability. Tag readers broadcast an RF signal to access information stored on the tags.

This information can range from static identification numbers to user written data or data computed by the tag.

In the near future, low-cost RFID tags attached to consumer items as “smart-labels” may become an economical and efficient replacement for optical bar codes. Indeed, RFID tags offer several advantages over optical bar codes: data may be read automatically, without line of sight, through non-conducting material, at a rate of several hundred tags per second, and from a distance of several meters. Besides replacing optical bar codes, the above described characteristics of tags makes them useful in other applications as well, including access control to buildings, environmental sensing, livestock and automobile identification, inventory control, theft detection, etc.

Lamite has been tested for specific transport applications in India’s prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and has met the defined parameters.

Because of their numerous applications and security, this in-house developed technology has already been licensed to some users.