Digital Product Passports or DPPs are deeplinks to static webpages hosted online for each products introduced on the European market. A web page has to exist for each product under the responsibility of the economic operator introducing the product on the market in Europe The webpage has to contain sustainability data as mandated by ESPR Delegated Acts for each EU country. Economic operators in Europe are also required to pay for hosting a back-up copy of the DPP online in case the primary copy is not reachable. TapDPP.App provides a framework compliant with the current draft of the ESPR and promotes the voluntary adoption of DPP's all over the world. Example of DPPs can be viewed on the https://tapdpp.app website.

In the fiber-to-the-home market, it is common to pull a pre-terminated patch cable from the outside of the home to the inside of the home through the exterior walls and often through several obstacles. We have invented the Helipuller™ product to make this a lot easier for telecom installers.

Exploiting the axis of length of the cable to make an RFID non-obtrusive has its pitfalls when the cable is of a small diameter or is not fully dielectric. Our Helitag solves this.

NFC works at 13.56 MHz and uses near field inductive coupling. It is thus not an 'antenna'. UHF RAIN RFID works at 900 MHz and is using far field and has a much bigger antenna on a tag, so the tag cannot be small if it is to be picked up from several meters away. NFC is compelling and easier to use and works with 2 billion smartphones out there. Accordingly, for Digital Product Passports (DPP's) in the hands of the masses, its the only compelling alternative to QR codes which are rather limited in capacity and easy to clone. UHF RAIN RFID provides reading from far away, but RFID tags with LEDs are necessary to find out which cable you are manipulating whereas with NFC, the confirmation is by tapping on the cable HeliPass™ NFC. We think its easier with NFC for most of the end-users but there are supply chain & logistics and monitoring applications where UHF RAIN RFID makes the most sense. We do both. You pick.

We released our TapDPP App on the iOS Appstore in order to fast track the voluntary adoption of digital product passports. We have a vested interest in that happening sooner than it being mandated by ESPR and other similar legislation coming up all over the world. Our first product which works with our TapDPP App is the HeliPass CatX NFC but we have several more coming.