System and Method of Controlling Lifecycles of Ambient Electromagnetic Power Harvesting Chips

A method for controlling assignment and management of identities in ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chips, comprising:

• sending, by an AEPH management application, a plurality of unique AEPH identities and one or more secure keys via an application programming interface (API) of the AEPH management application to an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) system, wherein each unique AEPH identity comprises an identity of a product item and an instance identity, and wherein the OEM system programs each unique AEPH identity of the plurality of unique AEPH identities and a secure key of the one or more secure keys into a different AEPH chip of a plurality of different AEPH chips;
• receiving, by the AEPH management application, one or more event notifications via the API from the OEM system, wherein the one or more event notifications comprise event information regarding initiation of the plurality of unique AEPH identifies and the one or more secure keys into the plurality of different AEPH chips;
• storing, by the AEPH management application, the plurality of unique AEPH identities and the event information in one or more immutable records in a datastore;
• recording, by the AEPH management application, one or more state changes associated with at least one of the plurality of unique AEPH identities by adding one or more new immutable records to the datastore until a predefined condition is met;
• and
• responsive to the predefined condition being met, rejecting, by the AEPH management application, any request received to update a state associated with the at least one of the plurality of unique AEPH identities, wherein each of the plurality of different AEPH chips only broadcast the unique AEPH identity programmed thereon in response to a received secure key matching the secure key stored thereon.

A method for controlling assignment and management of identities in ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chips, comprising:

• sending, by an AEPH management application, a plurality of unique AEPH identities and one or more secure keys via an application programming interface (API) of the AEPH management application to an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) system, wherein each unique AEPH identity comprises an identity of a product item and an instance identity, and wherein the OEM system programs each unique AEPH identity of the plurality of unique AEPH identities and a secure key of the one or more secure keys into a different AEPH chip of a plurality of different AEPH chips;
• receiving, by the AEPH management application, one or more event notifications via the API from the OEM system, wherein the one or more event notifications comprise event information regarding initiation of the plurality of unique AEPH identifies and the one or more secure keys into the plurality of different AEPH chips;
• storing, by the AEPH management application, the plurality of unique AEPH identities and the event information in one or more immutable records in a datastore;
• receive, by the AEPH management application, a request to record a lifecycle event associated with at least one of the plurality of unique AEPH identities in the datastore;
• evaluating, by the AEPH management application, the request to record the lifecycle event by applying a set of predefined event rules;
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• based on the predefined event rules, rejecting, by the AEPH management application, the request to record the lifecycle event in the datastore, wherein each of the plurality of different AEPH chips only broadcast the unique AEPH identity programmed thereon in response to a received secure key matching the secure key stored thereon.