Cross Match scanner wins German ePassport approval
Florida-based company’s L Scan 100 is the first to meet 500 pixel per inch requirements; Cross Match is known for beating competitors to the punch; approval opens up a fertile market
More good news (is there ever bad?) for Palm Beach Gardens, Florida-based Cross Match Technologies. The comapny this week announced that its L SCAN 100 has become the first single finger scanner to meet the image quality requirements set forth for Germany’s ePassport program, which calls for 22,000 units to be deployed by November 2007. This, of course, is not the first time Cross Match has proven itself a touch faster than its competitors. Last year it was the first to come up with a speedy ten-print scanning device — the L Scan Guardian — that met federal requirements. The L Scan Guardian, readers may know, has also been used succesfully in managing elections in Africa.
In this latest case, the challenge was to develop a machine featuring 500 pixels per inch definition. This was no problem. “Meeting the 500 ppi requirements with a single finger scanner is a big step for biometrics and the international need for smaller, more mobile devices that capture high quality images,” said Cross Match’s Gerhart Ernst. The L Scan 100 was approved following a third-party evaluation by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics in Jena, Germany
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