Search the CableID register to verify marked cable
Recovered a cable? Here is how to read its code
A protected cable carries thousands of microscopic microdots, and every one of them carries the same unique code. A smartphone and a pocket microscope are enough to read it.
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Read the code
Look at the cable through a pocket microscope. Every microdot carries the same ten-character code — you only need to read one of them.
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Enter it above
Type all ten characters into the search box. Letters and numbers; upper or lower case makes no difference.
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The owner is told
If the cable is on the register, the owner’s nominated contacts are notified. Owner and contact details are never shown to you, or published anywhere.
What CableID is
Cable and infrastructure theft costs Southern Africa billions every year and leaves communities without power, water, transport and connectivity. We exist to change the economics of that crime.
Mark
Microscopic microdots, each carrying one unique code, are applied until the cable is saturated. They survive cutting, stripping, granulation, melting and fire, on copper and aluminium alike.
Register
The code is recorded against its owner in a secure, tamper-evident, blockchain-secured register. The register is private by design: owner details are never published.
Verify & prosecute
Anyone who recovers marked cable can confirm ownership here in seconds, at any hour. Anonymous scrap becomes evidence, and theft becomes prosecutable.
Built on South African Patent No. 2016/03726 (CableID or its licensors), aligned with SANS 1741:2018, and independently lab-tested with no measurable effect on a cable’s electrical performance.
Protecting the infrastructure Southern Africa depends on
Electricity, solar, rail, telecommunications, water and private industrial networks — marked, registered and traceable back to their owner.
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