“We are going to make digital doubles for all the physical objects that surround us”, announces Etienne Hermite, co-founder of Unikbase, a guest on the Tech&Co set. His company is dedicated to the creation of digital doubles for collectibles such as works of art, collectibles or leather goods.
“The analogy with industry is quite relevant, we have already begun to make digital duplicates of infrastructures, factories, particularly for maintenance,” he stresses. The company intends to bring physical objects “into the digital world to realize their potential.”
For example, a consumer who wants to buy a piece of furniture that costs a certain price, may, at the time of purchase, choose to obtain a digital duplicate of the piece of furniture. So he will receive the furniture but also the digital double.
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This unique twin is destined to remain with the physical object, it is intimately associated with it. Once the link has been established, the merchant adds the invoice, the certificates of authenticity that will be encapsulated in a digital token attached to the blockchain.
“This system makes it possible to make the information inviolable and increase confidence in the object”, continues Etienne Hermite. The day the buyer wants to resell his physical furniture, the digital duplicate information will be available.
The start-up has just raised two million euros. “We have developed a first version of the solution with the ability to mark objects and create digital duplicates. The money will be used to meet the demand of the different actors to whom we are addressing and to start operations on a real scale”, the co-founder develops.
Source: BFM TV
