Bundesdruckerei, Infineon Technologies and Fraunhofer IZM join forces on “SeManTiK” project for contactless ID documents
The project partners investigate reliable and new integration technologies as well as realistic models to test and predict the life span of identity documents. Identity and travel documents are valid for a long period of time and must often withstand harsh conditions of daily usage. Therefore they have to be extremely robust and at the same time secure and reliable.
"Our goal is to develop multifunctional technologies for identity documents that will work without failure during a long period of time. In order to test the reliability of these technologies under realistic conditions we need new standardized testing procedures and simulation models which are investigated within the scope of the research project," explains Joachim Kloeser of Bundesdruckerei and overall project head of the research project.
"SeManTiK" provides us with new approaches to the qualitative evaluation and selection of existing, long-life electronic high security documents. We are now taking a major step toward reaching our common goal of being able to predict the required durability of these documents reliably in the laboratory. In doing so, we extend our competitive edge in Germany," says Peter Stampka, initiator and project manager of "SeManTiK" at Infineon Technologies.
The research project "SeManTiK" is being supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). As an associated partner, the Bundeskriminalamt (German Federal Criminal Police Office) is contributing its expertise in forensic and methodical analysis. Bayer Material Science is contributing its expertise in supporting materials to the research project.
Visit Bundesdruckerei at www.bundesdruckerei.de
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Visit the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) at www.izm.fraunhofer.de
