Colour Secure

There is a growing global problem of product and document counterfeiting which has led to a need for new and innovative security techniques. Using a novel form of spectrometer, designed by Cambridge Consultants, Colour Secure Ltd have produced a new security technique that can be applied for a fraction of the price of alternative methods.

The new approach involves printing a unique ‘colour signature’ onto documents and products, such as passports and pharmaceutical packaging, as part of the normal production process. This signature contains embedded information that is invisible to the naked eye.

Our role has been to help combine an innovative low-cost security technique with a colour recognition capability that can accurately measure invisible-to-the-eye information embedded in the colour signatures. To achieve this we produced a novel spectrometer that has been integrated into a compact handheld verification terminal.

Based on our own intellectual property in this technology area, the result was a robust spectrometer element that can be built for a relatively low price in volume, helping Colour Secure to commercialise their security innovation at an attractive price.

The new device is allowing our client to demonstrate its colour signatures, and to provide development kits to users, such as governments and corporations.