Authentication of halal logo through the use of smart holographic seal for halal products packaging

Halal means permissible, the life of Muslim revolves around the concept of Halal. It covers food as well as non-food category of products. Nowadays, Halal product has been recognized as a benchmark for safety and quality assurance. Products that are produced with halal certification are readily acceptable by Muslim consumers as well as consumers from other religions. Unfortunately, confusion and doubt about halal status of certain product among the consumers appeared due to the lack of important information on the product packaging. Barcode, QR Code, Radio Frequency Identification(RFID), product ingredients information are not adequate to authenticate the halal information claimed by manufacturer. A lot of works has been carried out to find the solution of this issue. By taking this issue, we have come out with the idea to study about the authentication of Halal logo through the use of smart holographic seal for halal product packaging. This study is aimed to study suitable smart authentic seal based on holographic structure for Halal products on their packaging as a means of identification. Holographic structure that is really suitable to be the authentic seal for halal products in the form of printed electronics technology is going to be studied. Equipment in term of high performance simulating platform and software are crucial to design and modeling of holographic structures as well as mobile application development base on image processing. A quantitative method will be carried out in order to earn perspective from the stakeholder who consists of consumers, industries and authority towards the proposed technology. We have high hope that this research will be the new finding for authentication of halal logo and brand protection

Optimizing Bi2O3 and TiO2 to achieve the maximum non-linear electrical property of ZnO low voltage varistor

In fabrication of ZnO-based low voltage varistor, Bi2O3 and TiO2 have been used as former and grain growth enhancer factors respectively. Therefore, the molar ratio of the factors is quit important in the fabrication. In this paper, modeling and optimization of Bi2O3 and TiO2 was carried out by response surface methodology to achieve maximized electrical properties. The fabrication was planned by central composite design using two variables and one response. To obtain actual responses, the design was performed in laboratory by the conventional methods of ceramics fabrication. The actual responses were fitted into a valid second order algebraic polynomial equation. Then the quadratic model was suggested by response surface methodology. The model was validated by analysis of variance which provided several evidences such as high F-value (153.6), very low P-value (<0.0001), adjusted R-squared (0.985) and predicted R-squared (0.947). Moreover, the lack of fit was not significant which means the model was significant