ABSTRACT

 Wine counterfeiting is not a new problem; however, the situation in Nigeria has been going worse even after Hong Kong manifested itself as a wine trading and distribution center with abolishing all taxes on wine in 2008. The most basic method is printing a fake label with a subtly misspelled brand name or a slightly different logo in hopes of fooling wine consumers; this has been common to other luxury-goods markets prone to counterfeiting. More ambitious counterfeiters might remove an authentic label and place it on a bottle with a similar shape, usually from the same vineyard, which contains a cheaper wine. Buyers has been warned in several occasions to identify/check whether or not the cork does match the label of the wine they buy or not, but how many "normal" consumers like us could manage to identify the fake with only eye scanning? RTAIS has emerged as a potential tool to combat wine and spirit counterfeiting, undermining international wine trading market and even the global economy hugely. Recently a number of anti-counterfeiting approaches have been proposed and adopted utilizing different authentication technologies for such purpose. The project presents an RTAIS -enabled anti-counterfeiting system using QR-Code, and addresses possible implementation issues, such as tag selection, tag programming and encryption, setup of backend database servers and the design of RTAIS user interface of the application. The integrated system is consisted of different component hardware and software, and so the best combination of settings, parameters and deployments should thus be identified. The critical design of the whole will be made known. Thus, the system will be developed using Java Programming Language, and the database will be of SQLite Database Management System