VST Enterprises (VSTE) has offered to step in and assist the UK Government with a cyber technology solution that the company are confident can help end the UK Freight ban into Europe.
The cyber technology company has written to the Secretary Of State For Transport, Grant Shapps – as well as Prime Minister Boris Johnson – to offer the technology solution which could also help assist with a ‘Frictionless Border’ between the UK and its European trading partners as the country navigates its exit from the EU.
‘FIT TO FREIGHT’ is a campaign that the Manchester based technology company is launching to road hauliers to enable all freight drivers both in the UK and Europe to have their own secure, digital health passport designed for freight transportation – the cross border platform called V-Health Passport is available for download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Haulage drivers can access the technology and download the secure digital health passport to their smartphones and get signed up in moments. Each driver can be given either a COVID-19 rapid antigen test at the roadside, or a 24 hour PCR test with results then confirmed and uploaded to their V-Health Passport – this will provide proof and authentication of a lorry drivers genuine identity and their test/vaccination status.
The test and vaccine agnostic health passport – which can work with all COVID-19 testing protocols – provides a secure technology and audit trail of a persons COVID-19 test results which can be displayed in a fully GDPR compliant way. The passport can also hold details of a drivers vaccination records and display this. The information sits behind a secure, end to end encrypted system protected by a unique code technology called VCode. The technology can also be scanned outside of the 2 metre social distancing protocol and up to 100 metres away on moving objects.
Commenting on the technology, Louis-James Davis CEO of VST Enterprises remarked: “We are the first technology company in the world to have developed a secure, multipurpose, cross corporate & cross government digital health passport that does not rely on using UPC bar codes or QR codes as its authentication technology. Both barcodes and QR codes have huge potential security implications as they can be cloned and hacked, the latter being subject to a process called ‘Attagging’.
“We have written to the Secretary Of State For Transport and the Prime Minister to offer our technology and services to assist the UK Government alongside their roadside testing protocols for the drivers. The freight drivers currently stranded in Kent could be onboarded with our technology in a matter of minutes which they could download and access themselves.
“With the Army assisting the NHS teams on the ground in Kent, a drivers test result and COVID-19 status could be easily uploaded straight to their V-Health Passport so that this can provide proof and verification of a valid COVID-19 test at the port of entry or departure.
To find out more information, visit: https://www.vstenterprises.com/