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Biometric scanners for smartphones

20.02.2013

The US military has signed a $3 million contract with AOptix to develop a biometric identification system that can run on a smartphone. Thus, in a few years, a soldier will be able to scan the facial features, voice, iris pattern and fingerprints of a suspicious person using a smartphone from a distance. AOptix specialists must develop special software and hardware that turns commercially available smartphones into a multifunctional biometric scanner.

The usefulness of biometric scanning in the fight against guerrillas cannot be overestimated. For example, in Afghanistan, where personal documents are very conditional, wanted partisans move around the country almost without hindrance and even get jobs in the police and army.

Currently, US troops use rather bulky and expensive HIIDE biometric scanners in Afghanistan, which must be brought close to the face when scanning. The new AOptix device is a prefix for a serial smartphone that will allow you to capture various biometric information. Smartphone scanner will apparently work on the basis of the Android operating system and weigh less than 450 grams, that is, it can be used with one hand. At the same time, the scanner will be able to scan facial features from a distance of up to 2 meters, the iris from 1 meter (even in bright sunlight), but to take fingerprints, you still need to attach them to a special sensor.

The new smartphone scanners will primarily be used by special forces after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2014.

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