Biometrika’s HiScan fingerprint scanner has been certified by the FBI according to PIV Image Quality Specifications. HiScan is a professional fingerprint scanner with a large acquisition area (1″ × 1″), conceived to become a reference in the single-finger scanner market. HiScan has been specifically designed for government and forensic applications and, more generally, for all […]

Joseph Pearson, Marketing Manager (Government ID), Texas Instruments The government electronic identification market is gaining momentum as traditional ID documents are being replaced with more secure cards containing smart chips. More than 50 countries have electronic passport (e-passport) programs and many more are implementing secure electronic identification programs for citizens, visitors and government employees. The […]

Cross Match will deliver its L SCAN® Guardian™ ten-print fingerprint systems to 10 metropolitan airports to upgrade the current Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) United States Visitors Immigrant Status and Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program which feature two-prints only. Airports which will receive the Guardian system include Atlanta, Boston, New York, Orlando and San Francisco. Cross […]

Planet Payment has selected PerSay to deliver voice authentication technology to be integrated with Planet Payment’s products for banking, financial services and retails industries. Planet Payment created its BuyVoice™ line of mobile payment solutions so that customers can conduct quick, simple and secure shopping just by speaking, using any mobile telephone. PerSay’s voice biometric technologies […]

Datastrip Inc. has launched its latest product, the DSV2+TURBO handheld biometric terminal. Certified under the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12), the DSV2+TURBO is designed for federal, state and local applications requiring on-the-spot ID verification. It is capable of reading a wide array of cards including both contact and contactless chips. The DSV2+TURBO features a “large-screen […]

BIO-key International, Inc. announced that its Law Enforcement group has been awarded over $450,000 in contracts in the fourth quarter of 2007 to date. These commitments have been made by forty public safety agencies located across the U.S. comprised of municipal and county agencies as well as emergency management departments and major metropolitan transit and […]

ImageWare has patented its Multimodal Biometric Platform which includes a system for enrolling, searching, matching, and managing biometric modalities on a common platform. It is Independent to the biometric types or the algorithms managed, the platform has been employed throughout the company’s line of biometric identity management solutions and marketed as the IWS™ Biometric Engine™. […]

The Port of Savannah will use the DSVII-SC handheld from Datastrip to validate ID cards within its facilities. The Georgia Ports Authority selected the versatile Datastrip unit to read the current magnetic stripe cards but the DSVII-SC is also able to read advanced ID technologies such as those driving the TWIC card. Georgia Ports Authority […]

Instead of biometric wall mounted time clocks or old fashioned manual time sheets, Software Techniques, Inc. is planning on enhancing their TimeKRON PC-based time and attendance software by integrating M2SYS’ Bio-SnapON™ fingerprint technology. Bio-SnapON™ allows companies to add biometric functionality to their software almost instantly, without affecting existing source code. Software Techniques Inc. Selects M2SYS […]

Vein patterns prove highly accurate and popular for pioneer vascular developer Identica By Jennifer Slattery, Contributing Editor Do you know what the back of your hand says about you? Or your finger or palm for that matter? Quite a bit … if you are looking beyond the surface to track the pattern of veins that […]