Asian Telecom group makes large vein recognition order
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eTrue.com sees diverse markets for its service including areas, such as corporate banking and accounting, online financial transactions, secure intranet or extranet access, online stock trading, online access to prescriptions and medical records, distance learning, governmental online security and customer identification. Contact: Michael Kuperstein at eTrue.com, Tel: +1 781 235 0330, email: [email protected] Law & order/face recognition Mexican ballot box fraud tackled with biometrics The Mexican Government (Btt May ’00, p3) is to use facial recognition technology to help elim- inate duplicate voter registrations for its July pres- idential election. The election between opposition candidate Vicente Fox Quesada and Francisco Labastida Ochoa, the incumbent party’s candidate, is expected to be extremely tight, making the need for a fraud-free vote even more crucial. Mexico’s Federal Election Institute (IFE) has been awarded a multi-million dollar budget to ensure “fair play”. As part of its efforts it has enlisted the services of Mexico City- based software integrator MetaData, which will use FaceIt face recognition technology from US supplier Visionics (Btt May ’00, p6), along with its ObjectStore database management system. According to president and CEO of Visionics Joseph Atick: “This is the first time that a national government has used facial recognition technol- ogy for the sole purpose of eliminating duplicate voter registrations.” In Mexico, voters must first be issued with a voter registration card before taking it to a ballot box to make their vote. It is at this stage the facial recognition system will be used, as there is the pos- sibility that voters could apply for more than one registration card using false identities. The new system will store a photo of the poten- tial voter in a central IFE database and compare it against the images already stored. According to Visionics, its system can search at a speed of one million records per second, allowing a real- time search process. Contact: Frances Zelazny at Visionics, Tel: +1 201 332 9213, email: [email protected] Physical access control/vein recognition Asian Telecom group makes large vein recognition order Fiber optic-based communication service provider Hanaro Telecom has taken delivery of 83 vein recognition units at one of its ISP Centres in Korea. The system was delivered by Korean-based supplier BK Systems (Btt Jul/Aug ’99, p9) and represents the company’s biggest vein recognition system order to date. BK Systems told Btt, that all 83 units are networked using BK System’s time and atten- dance software, Vein Control 2000, which allows all of the units to share the database in real- time. Hanaro Telecom has 70 internet network servers that are available for rent. These are each posi- tioned in their own cage. Following the installa- tion, each of these cages now has one BK 300S unit attached, so access can only be gained by autho- rised users. The other 13 vein identification units are used by Hanaro’s office employees at the centre. The system’s software has most of the regular time and attendance software functions, such as monitoring clock in/clock out times of users, warning signals for malfunctioning units and variable area and time control. One interesting feature is that the system is connected to the company’s CCTV cameras, which move to capture images of the area that is in use. BK Systems has recently joined forces with Nextern, also based in Korea, which will handle the company’s sales and marketing of the vein recognition systems. Contact: Daniel Choi at BK Systems, Tel: +82 2 3467 5413, Fax: +82 2 3461 6125, email: [email protected] Financial Visa reaches one billion and joins biometric study Visa International (Btt May ‘00, p2) has reached the one billion card milestone and given its thoughts on the likely look of its second billion cards. News 4 • Btt June 2000 Visionics launches Pocket PC product Visionics is hoping to capitalise on the proliferation of hand- held devices incorporating built-in cameras with the latest version of its face recognition software. FaceIT for Pocket PC is now compatible with the new Microsoft CE operating system, Pocket PC, which is used in a variety of devices, such as Casio’s Cassiopeia, Hewlett Packard’s Jornada and Microsoft’s MiPad. Contact: Frances Zelazny at Visionics, Tel: +1 201 332 9213, email: [email protected]
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eTrue.com sees diverse markets for its serviceincluding areas, such as corporate banking andaccounting, online financial transactions, secureintranet or extranet access, online stock trading,online access to prescriptions and medical records,distance learning, governmental online securityand customer identification.Contact: Michael Kuperstein at eTrue.com,Tel: +1 781 235 0330, email: [email protected]
Law & order/face recognition
Mexican ballot box fraudtackled with biometrics
The Mexican Government (Btt May ’00, p3) isto use facial recognition technology to help elim-inate duplicate voter registrations for its July pres-idential election.
The election between opposition candidateVicente Fox Quesada and Francisco LabastidaOchoa, the incumbent party’s candidate, isexpected to be extremely tight, making the needfor a fraud-free vote even more crucial.
Mexico’s Federal Election Institute (IFE) hasbeen awarded a multi-million dollar budget to ensure “fair play”. As part of its efforts it has enlisted the services of Mexico City-based software integrator MetaData, which will use FaceIt face recognition technology from US supplier Visionics (Btt May ’00, p6),along with its ObjectStore database managementsystem.
According to president and CEO of VisionicsJoseph Atick: “This is the first time that a nationalgovernment has used facial recognition technol-ogy for the sole purpose of eliminating duplicatevoter registrations.”
In Mexico, voters must first be issued with avoter registration card before taking it to a ballotbox to make their vote. It is at this stage the facialrecognition system will be used, as there is the pos-sibility that voters could apply for more than oneregistration card using false identities.
The new system will store a photo of the poten-tial voter in a central IFE database and compareit against the images already stored. Accordingto Visionics, its system can search at a speed ofone million records per second, allowing a real-time search process.Contact: Frances Zelazny at Visionics,Tel: +1 201 332 9213, email: [email protected]
Physical access control/vein recognition
Asian Telecom group makeslarge vein recognition order
Fiber optic-based communication serviceprovider Hanaro Telecom has taken delivery of83 vein recognition units at one of its ISP Centresin Korea.
The system was delivered by Korean-basedsupplier BK Systems (Btt Jul/Aug ’99, p9) andrepresents the company’s biggest vein recognitionsystem order to date.
BK Systems told Btt, that all 83 units are networked using BK System’s time and atten-dance software, Vein Control 2000, which allowsall of the units to share the database in real-time.
Hanaro Telecom has 70 internet network serversthat are available for rent. These are each posi-tioned in their own cage. Following the installa-tion, each of these cages now has one BK 300S unitattached, so access can only be gained by autho-rised users.
The other 13 vein identification units are usedby Hanaro’s office employees at the centre.
The system’s software has most of the regulartime and attendance software functions, such asmonitoring clock in/clock out times of users,warning signals for malfunctioning units andvariable area and time control.
One interesting feature is that the system isconnected to the company’s CCTV cameras,which move to capture images of the area that isin use.
BK Systems has recently joined forces withNextern, also based in Korea, which will handlethe company’s sales and marketing of the veinrecognition systems.Contact: Daniel Choi at BK Systems,Tel: +82 2 3467 5413, Fax: +82 2 3461 6125,email: [email protected]
Financial
Visa reaches one billionand joins biometric study
Visa International (Btt May ‘00, p2) has reachedthe one billion card milestone and given itsthoughts on the likely look of its second billioncards.
News
4 • Btt June 2000
Visionics launches Pocket PC productVViissiioonniiccss is hoping to capitaliseon the proliferation of hand-held devices incorporatingbuilt-in cameras with the latestversion of its face recognitionsoftware. FaceIT for Pocket PCis now compatible with thenew MMiiccrroossoofftt CE operatingsystem, Pocket PC, which isused in a variety of devices,such as CCaassiioo’’ss Cassiopeia,HHeewwlleetttt PPaacckkaarrdd’’ss Jornada andMicrosoft’s MiPad. Contact: Frances Zelazny atVisionics,Tel: +1 201 332 9213, email: [email protected]
