Historically, portable biometric collection systems have been designed for fixed Law Enforcement office applications. Their limitations stem from the fact that they were designed for specific hardware collection sensors optimized for a specific application. To a large extent the software is proprietary to a single vendors sensor suite and not designed to accept international character sets. Current products that the Department of Defense is using for mobile biometrics consist of poorly repackaged office systems. Azimuth proposes to research all available biometric technologies that could possibly be designated and repackaged into a lightweight, rugged, portable and user-friendly 0x9D biometric collection toolset. Our proposed design will encompass the requirements necessary for the screening and processing of individuals encountered within designated military operational environments. Software applications will comply with Biometric Application Programming Interfaces (BioAPI) international standards for the Operating System (OS) and Biometric Service Provider (BSP) interfaces, utilizing international character sets and external interface requirements of national and international biometric data sets. Our proposed application will be standards based and therefore capable of utilizing many vendor sensor products, considering operational requirements such as weight, size, power and cost.
Benefit: The production of the Tactical Biometric Registration and Recognition Suite will have been developed with maximum flexibility with regard to both the computer platform and its hardware sensors designed to integrate into a standards compliant application. The application will be capable of working with multiple biometrics scanning devices through wrappers (device drivers) developed around an open SDK. The application will be able to accept multiple biometrics modalities and will be capable of working with multiple biometrics processing algorithms through integration of standards such as BioAPI, CBEFF and other currently evolving standards. The application will be capable of a high transaction throughput while remaining a reliable communications platform based upon implementing a Service Oriented Architecture. This development approach will inherently support scalability for performance and growth, it will also provide a framework upon which the application layer will easily support advances in technologies. The Tactical Biometric Registration and Recognition Suite will have maximum flexibility with regard to computer platform, sensor and other support hardware, standards compliance which will provide cost effective life cycle support for the foreseen future.
Keywords: Biometrics, Biometrics, multimodal, iris, Portable, Fingerprints, Rugged, facial, watchlist
