Give every camera a unique, verifiable physical identity.
Starcke Camera ID uses a unique optical security identifier integrated directly into the camera, creating a verifiable connection between the physical camera and the images or video it produces.
Trust begins at the camera.
The problem: visual information can no longer be automatically trusted
Video Can No Longer Be Automatically Trusted
Seeing is no longer proof.
AI-generated deepfakes can convincingly replicate faces, voices and even entire video interactions. As a result, simply seeing a person, object or event on screen is no longer enough to prove that it is real.
This creates a growing security challenge wherever critical decisions depend on visual information — from video meetings and remote identification to surveillance cameras, drones and industrial operations.
Traditional digital authentication can verify users, accounts and devices. But it does not necessarily prove that the image being viewed originates from the physical camera it claims to come from.
As synthetic and manipulated visual content becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from reality, organisations need a new layer of trust.
How do you know that what the camera shows is real?
The solution: Starcke Camera ID
A physical identity for every camera.
Starcke Camera ID introduces a unique physical security identifier into the camera’s optical structure.
Using Starcke’s expertise in holography, photonics and physical security technologies, a micro-scale security marking can be integrated into the camera’s protective sensor glass or optical structure.
When the camera captures an image, the physical marking creates an optical identifier within the captured visual information.
Unlike an identifier generated by software later in the process, Camera ID originates at the physical image source — the camera itself. This creates a verifiable connection between the physical camera and the digital image or video it produces.
The camera does not just capture. It proves.
How it works
From Camera ID to Trusted Visual Information
Starcke Camera ID creates a verifiable connection between a physical camera and the visual information it produces.
Camera ID
Give the physical camera a unique identity.
A micro-scale optical security marking is integrated into the camera’s optical structure, giving the camera a unique physical identifier.
CAMERA + UNIQUE PHYSICAL ID →
ID becomes part of the image
The identifier travels with the image.
When the camera captures images or video, the physical security marking creates an optical identifier within the visual information. The identity originates from the physical camera — not from software added afterwards.
IMAGE / VIDEO + OPTICAL CAMERA ID →
Verify the camera
Verify the source. Establish trust.
The optical Camera ID can be recognised by a verification system and used to authenticate the physical source of the visual information.
CAMERA VERIFIED ✓
Verify the camera. Trust the image.
A physical trust layer for the digital world.
Use cases
Where Camera Identity Matters
One physical Camera ID. Multiple security-critical applications.
Starcke Camera ID can be applied wherever people, organisations or systems need to know that visual information originates from an identifiable physical camera.
Secure Video Meetings
Know which camera you are communicating with.
Add a physical layer of trust to critical video communications and help organisations protect against deepfake-based impersonation and identity fraud.
Drones
Trust what the drone sees.
Verify the physical source of aerial imagery in security, inspection, monitoring and remote operations where the authenticity of visual information matters.
Surveillance & Security Cameras
Make the camera itself part of the security chain.
Create a verifiable link between a physical surveillance camera and the visual information it produces.
Mobile Devices
A unique identity for the camera in your pocket.
Camera ID technology can be integrated into camera-equipped devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, enabling new possibilities for trusted communication and remote identification.
Industrial & Remote Operations
Trusted visual information for critical decisions.
Support remote inspection, monitoring, maintenance and control by providing an additional method for verifying the physical source of visual information.
Banking, Finance & Insurance
Strengthen trust in remote customer interactions.
Add physical camera authentication to video-based identification, customer service and other high-value interactions where impersonation and synthetic media create growing risks.
Defence & Government
Camera authenticity when trust is mission-critical.
Support secure communications, surveillance, remote identification and operational imaging where knowing the physical origin of visual information is essential.
From a video meeting to a drone in the field, trust begins at the camera.
The technology behind Camera ID
Built on Starcke Security Technology
Physical security meets digital trust.
Starcke Camera ID builds on Starcke’s expertise in photonics, holography and advanced physical security technologies.
Starcke Oy is a Finnish photonics company specialising in optical and holographic security solutions.
At the heart of Camera ID is a unique physical security marking integrated into the camera’s optical structure.
The security marking can be extremely small — approximately 0.02 mm to 0.50 mm — and can be implemented as an individual optical code, hologram or another unique physical identifier.
The same fundamental principle used to establish authenticity in the physical world can therefore be extended to cameras and the digital visual information they produce.
Physical identity. Digital verification.
From protecting physical authenticity to protecting digital reality.
Part of the Starcke security ecosystem
From Product Identity to Camera Identity
Starcke connects physical security technologies with digital verification.
With Starcke Camera ID, this principle is extended to cameras:
PHYSICAL SECURITY MARK → CAMERA ID → VISUAL INFORMATION → VERIFICATION
The result is a new trust layer that connects a physical camera with the digital world.
One camera. One identity. Verifiable at the source.
8. Pilot programme
Build the Next Layer of Visual Trust With Us
Starcke Camera ID is being developed for applications where knowing the physical source of visual information is critical.
We are looking for selected technology and industry partners to develop and validate Camera ID applications.
Step 1 — Pilot
Integrate and test Camera ID in a defined use case.
Step 2 — Commercialisation
Validate the technology, verification process and business model.
Step 3 — Licensing
Scale Camera ID technology into devices, products and applications.
Give Your Cameras an Identity.
Whether you manufacture cameras, operate drones, build security systems or depend on trusted visual information, Starcke Camera ID can add a new physical layer of authenticity.
Discuss a Starcke Camera ID pilot
