MicroDot Technology

“The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) has issued a draft notification GSR 521(E) … amending Central Motor Vehicle Rules, allowing motor vehicles and their parts, components, assemblies, sub-assemblies to be affixed with permanent and nearly invisible microdots that can be read physically with a microscope and identified with an ultraviolet light source,” . Microdot technology involves spraying the body and parts of the vehicle or any other machine with microscopic dots, which give a unique identification.

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.
• Use of this technology will help check the theft of vehicles and also the use of fake spare parts.
• “The microdots and adhesive will become permanent fixtures/affixation which cannot be removed without damaging the asset, that is the vehicle itself,”.
• The notification says that the microdots, if affixed, will have to comply with AIS 155 requirements.
• Each microdot carries this identification which is registered to the owner, but is not visible to the naked eye