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Ideco scores multiple biometric contracts

Thursday, December 1, 2011

South African-based biometric firm Ideco revealed in its year-end results that it scored three contracts to provide biometric solutions, reports Business Day.

Ideco is working on Namibia’s driver’s license project and supplying Gautrain smart cards to the Bombela Operating Company. Two of its new contracts involve biometric solutions for medical applications. The third will supply biometric readers to a financial institution for the purpose of client identification.


These contracts may help make up for Ideco’s lost revenue from the sale of Ideco Biometric Security Solutions, which contributed greatly to its biometric readers and solutions division. Year-end revenue from this division declined to R39.2 million from R52.2 million last year. [end] 

Biometrics provider Human Recognition Systems has developed an improved real time intelligence metric using fusion biometrics.

The system is based on the MForce identification platform and was developed as an open architecture called Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). With the new architecture, MForce can combine match scores from multiple biometric modalities, which improves the overall reliability identification rate, even if the data is poor or incomplete.

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Massachusetts-based Aware Inc. has announced it’s won three contracts to provide biometrics software and services for three large-scale border management systems in Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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AU10TIX, a subsidiary of ICTS International N.V., and the UK subsidiary of 3M have entered into an agreement to provide a ID document capture and authentication hardware and software products that will be able to cross-reference and manage records across a wide range of national and international identification cards.

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The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has opted to consolidate its multiple enrollment and registration programs into one Universal Enrollment Service. It has granted MorphoTrust USA a five-year, $248 million contract for the enrollment services.

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