FindBiometrics Managing Editor Peter Counter recently interviewed Mohammed Murad, Vice President, Global Sales, Marketing and Business Development, Iris ID. The conversation begins on the topic of recent milestones: the integration of Iris ID’s technology with the GenKey platform, and its certification from the Bureau of Indian Standards. The conversation goes on to talk about the…
GenKey has officially launched ABIS 4.0, updating the identification platform with new biometric matching algorithms that will significantly improve the speed and accuracy of the service. The latest edition of the Automated Biometric Identification System is ten times more accurate than previous versions, while the faster identification times will lower the hardware demands for those…
GenKey has updated its Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), the company has announced. The update revolves around speed, particularly with respect to its Label Independent Matching (LIM) — the system’s capability to detect duplicate fingerprints, even when they have been recorded and labeled as separate biometric entities. Explaining the enhancement in a statement, GenKey CTO Gavan Duffy…
Ghana has just held its third major election to feature biometric voter verification care of GenKey technology, and it’s highlighting the benefits and perils of the emerging age of digital polling. The country became the first in the world to use biometric technology to verify voters in 2012, when the technology was used in a…
Preparing for a biometric election next year, the Electoral Commission of Ghana is making room for a margin of error. The EC has decided that traditional, manual voter verification will play a role in the election process. Biometrics will still play the primary role in voter verification. In a meeting of an Inter-Party Advisory Committee,…
Last week at FindBiometrics National ID Month continued with a look at how the UNHCR is deploying biometrics around the world to serve and protect millions of forcibly displaced persons in what is commonly being referred to as a global refugee crisis. We also announced the National ID Month Webinar, for which registration is now…
Ghana held its District Level Elections earlier this month and biometric tech supplied by large scale biometrics solutions provider GenKey played a key role in the successful observance of the democratic process. GenKey has announced today that its biometric voter registration solution was successfully deployed in Ghana, delivered in good cooperation with the company’s partner STL.…
Last week at FindBiometrics we continued National ID Month with a featured look at India’s ambitious Aadhaar program. In the industry news we got our first official look at Apple’s second generation Touch ID on the iPhone 6S, a slew of government biometrics headlines and the usual influx of mobile fingerprint integrations. Here’s a look…
GenKey, an identity solutions provider specializing in elections and healthcare, has another major national project underway. The Dutch company is providing its biometric identity solutions for an upcoming election in Tanzania. Working as a subcontractor for South Africa-based Lithotech Exports, GenKey has been implementing its Automated Biometric Identification Solution (ABIS), its SPiRE Voter ID Management…
Dutch identity solutions provider GenKey is going to provide the technology and support for an ambitious biometric healthcare management system in Kenya, the company has announced. Together with a local partner, GenKey will provide software, hardware, training, and additional support services to the country’s National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). To start, the program will have…
GenKey has released an updated version of FastAFIS, the company’s biometric matching system. The SDK is now significantly more accurate. According to the company, FastAFIS’ false acceptance rates (FAR) are now somewhere between 10 and 1000 times lower than the typical range found in practice. It’s the product of intensive research and development; GenKey CEO…
GenKey, a secure identity company specializing in healthcare and elections, has announced a new cloud-based iteration of its SPiRE ID Management Solution. SPiRE is basically a platform revolving around the management of large numbers of subjects. It interfaces with GenKey ABIS to provide biometric deduplication, and with GenKey Adjudication to allow for the administration of biometric…
Today, biometric identity and election management systems company GenKey announced the release of the BioFinger software development kit (SDK). BioFinger offers GenKey partners minutiae-based fingerprint matching technology that meets the high scrutiny of FVC-onGoing, an online automatic evaluation for biometric technologies. In a press release issued today announcing the SDK’s release, Gavan Duffy, GenKey’s CTO,…