What are your security requirements?
- Are accurate identity results mission critical?
- Is the user population large or difficult?
- Is the operating environment harsh or variable?
- Are reliability, ruggedness and durability necessary?
- Is low cost of ownership important?
If you answered yes to any one of these questions, then Ultra-Scan represents the best choice available.
If you answered yes to two or more of these questions, then Ultra-Scan is the only choice.
National security, civil, industrial and commercial security requirements increasingly demand positive identification for a wide range of functions and activities. The September 11, 2001 attack on the United States heightened consciousness of risks to populations, critical functions, resources and infrastructure. At the same time, prevention of fraud, theft and other crimes requires positive identification to authorize, manage, track and record a wide range of transactions.
Security identity management activities include applications such as:
- Population ID – for nations, businesses, authorized user/benefit groups
- Physical security – for facilities, perimeters and borders
- Logical security – for systems, processes and transactions
- Transportation security – for authorities, workers and travelers
- Transaction management – for delivery and documentation of transfers
To date there have been a large number of initiatives to test and/or implement biometric identification to enhance security in government, industry and commerce. Many initial efforts have faltered early due to weaknesses in the biometrics applied.
The primary issues identified include:
- Failure to enroll (FTE) – inability to register and serve the entire user population
- Poor accuracy – high False Acceptance Rate (FAR), that permits unauthorized action or entry, or high False Rejection Rate (FRR), that makes it difficult for an authorized person to execute authorized functions
- Environmental limitations – inability of most systems to operate in all applicable environments, such as outdoors, extreme temperatures and/or harsh conditions of glare, shock, sound, vibration
- Unacceptable operational costs – exception handling for a significant portion of user population, difficult test and calibration processes, need to individually “attend” authentication process, preparing users and/or equipment, required regular servicing of equipment, etc.
- Unknown performance – few if any biometric solutions provide for performance measurement, analysis and reporting
Ultra-Scan and its partners have successfully executed many security applications around the world, capitalizing on the unique performance of our ultrasonic fingerprint imaging, strong image processing and matching software and our resolute commitment to excellence in performance.
The Company is particularly proud of its success in achieving very high performance results in such demanding installations as:
- Outdoor, unattended, all weather identification of commercial truck drivers in high throughput commercial operations, for Canadian National Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, including extreme weather conditions, to securely manage entry/exit and control valuable loads in high intensity transfer operations.
- Outdoor, unattended, all weather identification of commercial truck drivers to authorize fleet fueling operations and payment transfer, via satellite, supporting Brazilian trucking fleets, fuel providers and a large commercial bank.
- Access Control protecting the air operations areas of major US airports.
- Outdoor, unattended airport perimeter entry/exit and flight line access control for a US airport, including a wireless communication link.
- Registration and re-identification of illegal border crossing violators for a Middle East nation sharing a border with Iraq.
- Positive identity admission and release control of inmates at US jails.
- Employee ID and access control at a number of commercial businesses, a national railroad and various government facilities.
- Time and Attendance for all employees in a national capitol city.
Where security is concerned, a real world biometric security system must provide ease of enrollment and deactivation, it must be intuitive and comfortable to use, it must provide for high throughput and it must demand an absolute minimum level of effort for exception handling and/or system service and support. The devices must be sturdy and deliver reliability over the long term.
Finally, the security customer must not only have confidence in performance, but evidence of performance. That is, it must be possible, and practical, to automatically measure and analyze performance, to identify any problems or anomalies, understand causes and correct them.
In every case, Ultra-Scan has delivered an identity management solution that works!