Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Oman and Jordan select Sagem Sécurité iris identification system

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Sagem Sécurité will supply iris recognition technology to Oman and Jordan. The systems will be be deployed at more than 100 sites and used for ID checks at borders and airports. Border police in both countries will call on databases with previous records of people’s irises. [end] 

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Accenture Federal Services a 13-month, $71 million contract to add biometric modalities and other enhancements to the US-VISIT program. US-VISIT uses digital fingerprints and photographs. A pilot program included in the contract will test facial and iris voluntary identification enrollment and matching.

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IrisGuard, a Jordan-based developer of iris recognition systems, has landed a contract for supplying the Jordanian government technology for capturing iris data of each visitor to the country, according to a Bloomberg article.

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AOptix Technologies announced it will host a roundtable discussion centered around iris recognition systems’ involvement in air travel at the ACI – Airport Exchange show November 27 - 30 in Abu Dhabi.

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AOptix Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with emaratech, a regional system integrator for government, border control, aviation security and electronic identification systems and the provider of smart and electronic border control gates in all of UAE airports, Sultanate of Oman, Sultan Qaboos airport and Jordan Queen Alia airport.

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Raptor Identification Systems unveiled two new mobile biometric devices. The two new solutions, called RaptorONE-TM and RaptorPAD-TM, both run on the Android Mobile Operating System with one being powered by a smart phone and the other a tablet.

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Lumidigm announced a partnership with Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited to bring a criminal identity solution that utilizes iris recognition and will also offer fingerprint recognition sensors from Lumidigm.

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