A South African-made biometrics solution is set to be rolled out in the US market.
The unit, called Biometric Identity Management System (BIMS), is a product of local biometrics solutions provider Ideco. The company will travel to the US next week for the global launch of its new all-in-one mobile biometrics unit.
This is the first time the company is launching the product and could not disclose the pricing details or its image.
According to a recent report from Markets and Markets, North America leads the overall biometrics market, where the US is the major revenue-generating country in this region. Increasing homeland security, government spending, research and development activities are driving the growth of the North American biometrics market.
Ideco is set to face off with a plethora of other companies in the tightly-contested US biometrics market.
BIMS and its supporting software were designed and built in SA at a cost of over R20 million in R&D and two-and-a-half years of man hours by a team of software and firmware developers and engineers, says Ideco.
BIMS will be unveiled at the connectID 2016 Conference and Expo at the Walter E Washington Convention Centre in Washington from 14 to 16 March.
In SA, Ideco says it has distributed numerous fingerprint readers which have been deployed to manage millions of people in a diverse range of businesses.
The device is the size of a 'ruggedised' laptop and is capable of six biometric modalities and delivers a range of connectivity options, including Bluetooth, WiFi, GSM, GPS, LAN and cloud.
BIMS enables biometric identification across a range of modalities - from fingerprint through to iris scanning - as well as being mobile and configurable. Ideco says the solution can be rolled out in any environment requiring agile identification and processing of crowds.
Marius Coetzee, Ideco CEO, says the company selected this event for the launch because BIMS is a solution of international significance. "The need for secure and authentic identity management has reached crisis proportions globally, with demand for advanced biometrics surging. The biometrics systems market is predicted to be worth anything from $15 billion to $24 billion," he explains.
However, he notes, most of the systems currently on the market offer single factor authentication. Before the advent of BIMS, none could deliver six modalities in a single portable device, which can be used in any configuration for multiple levels of identification, as well as integrating into existing enterprise systems quickly and easily, Coetzee points out.
With the use of APIs, the solution can be integrated with any backend system and BIMS' mobile and configurable abilities facilitate both identity enrolment and identity validation at any place, any time.
Due to the huge potential for mass adoption of BIMS solutions around the world, Ideco is in talks with international technology companies on distribution partnerships, concludes Coetzee.
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