Every thing has an identity.

It might be a serial number, an RFID tag, a QR code, a barcode, or just a record in some database.

Or, if it's none of those, it's lost —or could be.

Keeping track of everything isn't going to be any easier when we have the much-anticipated Internet of Things, aka IoT.

In fact, it might be much harder, because we'll be creating vast new namespaces for trillions or quintillions of things, instead of just for millions or billions of people.

Let's say you move some of your things from one namespace, or one company, or one customer, to another. There are ways to keep track of things already, of course, but less so if you need to know the authenticity of the things you're tracking. How do you know that?

With Qredo you can.

The same way Qredo supports attestation, authenticity and trust with people can apply equally well with things.

Qredo's approach is especially important to the IIoT: the Industrial Internet of Things. In shipping, aeronautics, medicine, manufacture... you name it.

[continue... source Ida's paper as well]