Title	DIGITAL DRIVING LICENSE
Brand	TRAFI - FINNISH TRANSPORT SAFETY AGENCY
Product/Service	DIGITAL DRIVING LICENSE PROTOTYPE
Category	A04. Early Stage Technology
Entrant	HIQ Espoo, FINLAND
Idea Creation	HIQ Espoo, FINLAND
Production	HIQ Espoo, FINLAND

Name	Company	Position
Jesse Enqvist	HiQ	Head of Continuous Delivery
Cyril Moralès	HiQ	Mobile Developer
Adrian Simionescu	HiQ	Senior Software Engineer
Niko Sipilä	Great Apes	Creative Director
Constantin Freche	Great Apes	Lead Designer
Mikko Saario	Great Apes	Designer
Anna Puura	Great Apes	Designer

The Campaign

As we are moving towards mobile world, the physical wallet along its various cards and licenses is going to disappear. Yet, a digital driving license has to be as secure and easy to use as the physical license. DDL is not only about good UX and security, it plays a critical part in digitalising the whole Driving License process. User information and Driving License status are always up to date and dynamic. The user can be identified without the need for physical infrastructure, such as separate QR code readers. QR code is only to be used for extra security layer if needed. DDL will utilise standardized sensors, that are included in modern smartphones such as the gyroscope. In addition to sensors, Suomi.fi public services platform will be used for secure authentication through banking credentials. User images are safely fetched from Trafi’s photo registry which is automatically updated.

Creative Execution

In the onboarding phase, the user is securely identified using banking credentials. DDL has two main security levels: visual security and backend security. The visual security level uses a gyroscope connected digital watermark combined with continuously animated background, that supports interaction to prevent motion capture frauds. User information and image are always up to date, which makes it easier to identify the person. A barcode is generated from user information to match the barcode in a physical driving license. Visual level security can be dynamically altered and pushed to the devices if a breach is detected. Backend security includes a QR code that is generated on device and in the backend with a specified period of validity. This ensures that the information on the device matches the information in the backend and the user is not using a fake application. Backend security has some other additional security features which are not to be described here. DDL is currently in pilot development stage for iOS-platform. Pilot is about to start in the near future. Android version will follow after the pilot phase.

Majority of driving license owners will adopt the DDL and use it as an identification method in Finland. Mobile payments are on the rise so providing an ID for the same device will hopefully eliminate the need to carry any physical cards in the near future. DDL speeds up process of acquiring a driving license. DDL is always up to date, whereas a physical Driving License expires in around 5 to 15 years and a physical passport and an ID card expires every 5 years. User information will change as life goes on and changes will be automatically deployed into DDL. Currently iOS prototype has a working backend and APIs without integrations. The prototype is native iOS code and visual security layer is ready. A pilot version is currently in development. Mobile Driving License ISO standard is in development, bringing DDL for everyone in the future.

Completely re-imagining how a digital ID could work, Trafi’s Digital Driving Licence (DDL) uses custom visual elements for providing the level of security that is sufficient for daily use – removing the need for separate infrastructure for identification (such as QR readers and other backend solutions). DDL also allows faster deployment of a Driving Licence and keeps all the user information automatically up to date. It removes the manual processes related to entering user information if changes occur or when the user initially receives their first driving licence.