Biometrics

From Canada to Ushuaia, in the Caribbean or West Africa, with near thirty identity solutions deployed since 1996 we have a very unique expertise to help you. From local law enforcement agencies to central or federal id issuance, we provide this technical expertise for a successful project.

An empiric but not scientific methods, fingerprinting since the 19th century has proven worldwide and over time that each person, even twins, have a unique set of single unique fingerprint for each finger. The biometry extended to the eyes and a pair of irises is as unique. This is why you can securely use biometric as a uniqueness filter. Fraud is extremely hard to implement and biometrics solutions have proven to be highly secure.

Automated Biometrics Identification Systems (ABIS) are computerized processing of persons biometrics, like fingerprint, eyes irises or face picture (facial). An ABIS will allow you to issue a unique set of data and a unique internal identification number for a specific biometric set.

Thanks to this secure purpose of avoiding multiple registration, you can then issue for example a unique identification, voter ID, or driver license, link this unique record to civil or voter registration, grant rights like welfare, with the guaranty of uniqueness for each enrolled person. Those issuance systems will have alphanumeric data and plain images of the persons (picture, signature, name, address, sex, etc.).

For security and bandwidth concern in mind, the system can be design in a way that no images travel on the network, but only extracted encoded data. As a matter of fact, those solutions don't require any other data, only the extracted encoded biometrics. For this reason, ABIS solution can be outsourced as a service because the processing doesn't involve anything else than encoded biometric data, leaving the provider with no information at all about the persons and citizens.

We can determine together which biometric technology or combination of biometrics is the most cost effective for you, your goals and budget. You should also take in consideration inter-agencies data exchange and eventually international data exchange.

If you’re not located in the United States of America, be aware that those systems are under Export License law and require US Government authorization, rarely declined. Anyhow, in a civil environment like ID issuance or Welfare fraud control, fingerprint might not be the first choice. There is definitely a legal aspect but also health issue as you must touch fingerprint readers, system response time, False Acceptance (FAR) and False Rejection (FRR) rates that might deter this so famous biometric method.

A proper analysis of your goals, objectives and budget, is mandatory before choosing one or multiple biometrics. Then, we will design a fit solution with your team, and draft the specification of the system and algorithms required.