Context

• Recently the government has come out with draft rules to make microdots mandatory in vehicles.
• This move will also ensure that consumers have a way of identifying original parts from fake ones and that contributes to overall safety as well.

About Microdots Technology

• The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways issued a draft notification on amending the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, and allowing motor vehicles and their parts, components, assemblies, sub-assemblies to be affixed with permanent and nearly invisible microdots.
• These microdots can be read physically with a microscope and identified with ultraviolet light.
• Microdots are a globally proven technology to ensure originality in spare parts of machines and components, including in the automobile sector.
• The government has envisaged that with microdots becoming a permanent feature in vehicles, identifying them would become easier in case they are stolen.

How it works?

• The microdots and adhesive are to become a permanent fixture/affixation which cannot be removed without damaging the asset itself.
• The microdots are to comply with AIS 155 requirements, if affixed.
• The technology involves spraying thousands of microscopic dots onto vehicles or other assets to form a unique identification.
• Each microdot carries this identification which is registered to the owner, but is not visible to the naked eye.

Source:IE