Cross Match showing Challenge to Industry-compliant portable biometric device
An innovative biometric company comes out with a light, portable biometric devices complying with the government Challenge to Industry call
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida-based Cross Match Technologies is showing its L SCAN Guardian, a ten-print live-scan hardware and software system. The company emphasizes the unit’s small size and light weight: 6 inches wide, 6 inches deep, 4.7 inches high, and weighing four pounds. Guardian thus meets the mandatory physical and performance requirements specified in the federal government’s September 2005 Challenge to Industry. The Guardian captures and segments an individual’s ten-print images, evaluates the image quality of each fingerprint image, displays the fingerprint images on a computer screen, and formats the captured data into FBI-compliant electronic fingerprint transaction records — and the company says the unit does all this in less than fifteen seconds.
The Government’s Challenge to Industry was issued by a joint federal government user group which includes DHS, the FBI, Department of State, Department of Defense Biometrics Fusion Center, National Institute of Justice, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Challenge called for industry “…to provide 10 print capture devices and software meeting the processing time and size requirements and meeting FBI and industry format and quality requirements within the next 12 months to support the critical mission needs of the user community, and specifically, to meet the aggressive mission requirements of the Department of Homeland Security.”
Guardian would be suitable for narrow countertops, military, and civilian law enforcement jump kits and backpacks, and other limited-space and time-constrained environments. Guardian has dual certification from the FBI for capture of both rolled and flat fingerprints, so it can be used in both the public safety (criminal) and civilian (background check and access control) markets.
