42 Design and implementation of software, hardware and technology solutions that allow retrieving, analyzing and processing encoded information embedded inside or on raw materials, such as metals, metal ores, diamonds or precious stones and uploading the information to a cloud computing system or to a distributed blockchain system, creating a digital twin to raw materials, for the purpose of products and product components authentication and tracking, brand monitoring and protection, to protect against counterfeiting, tampering, and diversion, to ensure the integrity of genuine products, and for the purpose of supply chain management and logistical processes; design and implementation of software, hardware and technology solutions that allow retrieving, analyzing and processing encoded information embedded inside or on products or product components, comprising raw materials, diamonds or precious stones, and uploading the information to a cloud computing system or to a distributed blockchain system, creating a digital twin to a physical product or product component and a profile and associating this profile to a physical product or product component, for the purpose of products and product components authentication and tracking, brand monitoring and protection, to protect against counterfeiting, tampering, and diversion, to ensure the integrity of genuine products, and for the purpose of supply chain management and logistical processes