Digidentity partners with SERMI to develop seamless access to automotive repair and maintenance information across 29 countries

Digidentity, a Solera company, and SERMI today announced a strategic partnership that will deliver a Trust Centre service for the automotive industry across 29 countries as outlined in EU regulation 1244/2021.

The SERMI scheme will start with a staged implementation from October 2023 and will provide independent operators and Remote Service Suppliers with a secure virtual token developed and deployed by Digidentity’s proprietary system to access a vehicle manufacturer’s website. This will allow access to security-related repair and maintenance information housed on the vehicle manufacturer’s portal. Once the identification is complete, an individual employee can access information from each manufacturer through this single verification.

“Building trust in the online environment is key to economic and social growth,” said Digidentity CTO and founder, Marcel Wendt. “As the Trust Centre for the SERMI scheme, we can facilitate the Conformity Assessment Body with secure electronic identification and authentication across Europe. This means we can allow users the convenience and ease of one-off verification while mitigating risk for vehicle manufacturers.”

This partnership does not just mark an easier, more efficient, and safer path for independent operators to access security-related repair and maintenance information. According to Fred Slikker, Managing Director of Digidentity: “The implementation of this digital wallet service could also herald the beginning of a more integrated identification service across multiple sectors.”

“The partnership is truly exciting because it’s the first large-scale implementation of a new standard across member states for the foreseeable future,” Fred Slikker continued: “In the past, when we talked about security, it was mostly from a service provider’s perspective. We now combine a great user experience with airtight security that benefits both recipients and users. Recipients are protected against risk and users are given total control over their data footprint using informed consent.”

Co-chair of SERMI, Jan-Willem van der Linden commented, “We are delighted to work with Digidentity as our selected Trust Centre. During the selection period they have been able to demonstrate their existing secure solution and proven track record which fits our needs seamlessly. The current progress they are showing is really impressive.”