With facilities in London and Vancouver Canada, Veridicom International Inc (formerly doing business as Alpha Virtual, Inc. and, earlier as Perceptronics, Inc. after a merger in 2004) offers a suite of identity management products, including hardware and software that utilize public key infrastructure (PKI), secure token-based technology, and fingerprint biometrics to authenticate and manage personal identities for a wide variety of applications and transactions. This platform provides a biometrically authenticated digital signature for financial, travel, and other applications. Veridicom's patented authentication and transaction technology enables real-time authentication of individuals anytime, anywhere, via the Internet, point-of-sale, security kiosk and mobile devices.. The company is currently building a new position in commercial internet collaborative 3D products and services. The divisions of the company are training and instrumentation systems, simulation networking research and development and commercial software products. Training and instrumentation includes standard training devices and systems, customised systems and supporting systems sold to U.S. Government and international customers. Simulation networking research and development includes development of services on networked simulation and related technologies. The work in this area was rendered to the U.S army simulation, training and instrumentation command and the U.S defense modeling and simulation office. Commercial software products include sales and support of the commercial software packages and associated services, such as the IC3D framework and the existing software. A survivor of the dot.com era, the firm first established itself as a maker of Internet collaboration software for the entertainment and education industries. Then, it joined into the wireless trend by acquiring EssTec, a software developer focused on products for wireless workflow management in the financial services, health care, and hospitality segments. In 2004 the company changed its name to Veridicom, and became a developer of biometric technology for fingerprinting authentication chips and authentication software. It also acquired Cavio, a maker of middleware for sensitive data transfer.
