The Ultimate Solution for Border Control

The currently discussed initiatives for Border Control calling for countries to implement a visitor/identity system requirement which includes fingerprints and "facial or eye recognition" have created a public outcry mainly because of...

• The enormous cost (it does not warrant the term ‘investment’) over alternative and better solutions, and the time to implement under international accord.
• The public outrage at having their biometric data integrated with existing police and other fingerprint databases of criminals and illegal residents.

The BioSmart+ provides a perfect alternative to this badly flawed visitor identity system, with the advantages of

• No invasion of personal privacy
• Highly accurate, overcoming the problem that up to 18% of people do not have electronically verifiable fingerprints.
• Avoid billions in government expense on highly complex networks and databases.
• Faster clearance of passengers and at border crossings.
• Major reduction in cost of hardware and staff at airports, seaports, and border entries.
• Far better total security control

HOW DOES IT WORK?

1. Cardholder inserts their special smartcard into BioSmart+ Terminal. This tells our FingerFoto™ camera module to “wake-up” and capture a virtual 3-dimensional image of the cardholder’s two fingers (of either hand) and pass the image data to the smartcard.
2. The smartcard processes the image using its on-board engine with our proprietary algorithms and compresses the data into a 20 byte template, which is immediately encrypted and stored. The cardholder’s two finger data is NOT kept in the Terminal and is NOT transmitted to any database or anywhere else --- the person’s encrypted data is ONLY on the smartcard.
3. There is nothing to “hack” or copy, no memory in the Terminal, no communications lines to tap, no central database. If the card is lost or stolen it is totally useless to another person.
4. The cardholder can then go to a BioSmart + Terminal anywhere in the world and insert their card. The BioSmart+

Terminal captures the two finger data and passes it onto the smartcard. The processor on the card is programmed to carry out the “compare function” and confirm that the new template is the same as the one stored on the smartcard. If it is, the “open” command is given to the Terminal’s door or gate controller. Meanwhile, on the smartcard, the two templates are combined (i.e., template up-dating) and the new template is immediately random re-encrypted on the smartcard.

IN SUMMARY: There is no trace or track anywhere that can be compromised. The cardholder’s template is never the same twice and in a different encrypted format between each verification.

Because there is no database of cardholders, there is zero need for using Identification Mode (1 versus X). Because the BioSmart+ Terminals are all “standalone” with no network or central database/data processing (i.e. zero infrastructure), the initial cost and overhead costs are far below any other biometric system --- hence our statement “THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE SECURITY LEVEL AT THE LOWEST COST”.