Zerco biometric ID card serves as IAASP conference card
Ohio-based biometric company earns kudos as it offers its card as the official ID card of a conference for security officials
What better way to promote your biometric solution than equip the attendees of a conference on port security with their own biometric ID cards? This is what Brookfield, Ohio-based Zerco Systems International decided to do at the 2007 International Association of Airport and Seaport Police (IAASP) conference in Washington, D.C.
The gesture was not lost on Jay Grant, director of U.S. Port Security Council, who called the Zerco biometric ID card system “available at the right time in America.” Grant said, “Since 9/11, America’s ports have taken considerable steps to tighten security, but a lot remains to be done. Improving authorized access to ports with tools such as the tamper-resistant Zerco biometric ID cards is important to safeguarding America.”
Zerco’s machine-readable biometric ID cards served as the conference attendees’ official credentials, and the attendees were enrolled on-site as they arrived at the conference. The IAASP, by the way, is the world’s largest nonprofit police association. The company’s ID cards boast a very large memory, and are thus capable of storing digital fingerprints, voiceprints, iris scans, facial recognition, signature, and other data.
