British startup has developed a wafer-thin Peratech switch, designed to protect against unauthorized access to RFID chips. RFID chips that are integrated for example in passports, access cards or cards of payment systems can, prior to use by the owner can itself be activated by pressing a button. The 35-micron thin switch is made from a patented material Peratech “Quantum Tunnelling Composite” (QTC).

The QTC switch interrupts power to the RFID chip or its connection with the transmitting antenna. Thus it is impossible that someone who should read information stored on the chip without the knowledge of the owner.

QTC is an insulator, which is on deformation, it is caused by pressure or strain on the electrical conductor. The conductivity increases following the activation continuously. Thus, the passport owner could control the chip just before the turn at the airport. After some time again isolated the material and thus on the chip out.

Philip Taysome, CEO of Peratech leads, as basis for the development of the switch box to the concerns that unprotected RFID chips can be read and easily duplicated. “People do not realize how easily you can read this data and what security risk this creates.” The problem was that the chips on each request, sent. Already a compatible scanner near the RFID tag is enough to get to the information without the owner noticed the query. According Taysome QTC is very robust, so the switch functioned for some years.

British startup has developed a wafer-thin Peratech switch, designed to protect against unauthorized access to RFID chips. RFID chips that are integrated for example in passports, access cards or cards of payment systems can, prior to use by the owner can itself be activated by pressing a button. The 35-micron thin switch is made from [...]

British startup has developed a wafer-thin Peratech switch, designed to protect against unauthorized access to RFID chips. RFID chips that are integrated for example in passports, access cards or cards of payment systems can, prior to use by the owner can itself be activated by pressing a button. The 35-micron thin switch is made from [...]

British startup has developed a wafer-thin Peratech switch, designed to protect against unauthorized access to RFID chips. RFID chips that are integrated for example in passports, access cards or cards of payment systems can, prior to use by the owner can itself be activated by pressing a button. The 35-micron thin switch is made from [...]

British startup has developed a wafer-thin Peratech switch, designed to protect against unauthorized access to RFID chips. RFID chips that are integrated for example in passports, access cards or cards of payment systems can, prior to use by the owner can itself be activated by pressing a button. The 35-micron thin switch is made from [...]

British startup has developed a wafer-thin Peratech switch, designed to protect against unauthorized access to RFID chips. RFID chips that are integrated for example in passports, access cards or cards of payment systems can, prior to use by the owner can itself be activated by pressing a button. The 35-micron thin switch is made from [...]

British startup has developed a wafer-thin Peratech switch, designed to protect against unauthorized access to RFID chips. RFID chips that are integrated for example in passports, access cards or cards of payment systems can, prior to use by the owner can itself be activated by pressing a button. The 35-micron thin switch is made from [...]

British startup has developed a wafer-thin Peratech switch, designed to protect against unauthorized access to RFID chips. RFID chips that are integrated for example in passports, access cards or cards of payment systems can, prior to use by the owner can itself be activated by pressing a button. The 35-micron thin switch is made from [...]