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Spanish government invites SeMarket for CWID demo

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

SeMarket was invited to present a biometric system by the Spanish Ministry of Defense at the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID), according to a Security Park article. The system that SeMarket was demonstrating was their new facial recognition system, called BioFaceAlert, which is capable of facial recognition through video surveillance and alerting personnel when specified matches have been made.

The CWID is organized by the Spanish government as a technology demonstration with the chief intention of evaluating new security technologies. Other interested parties at the demonstration include officials from CCEB countries, NATO member countries and the U.S. armed forces.

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