Fingerprint Software Provider

Award recognizes innovative ExpressID AFIS system and Innovatrics technology leadership in the global fingerprint technology market

Paris, France (1. february, 2009) – Global fingerprint technology leader Innovatrics captures the coveted Frost & Sullivan 2008 Global Fingerprints Technology of the Year Award. This award recognizes Innovatrics’ ExpressID AFIS product as a global market leader in large-scale AFIS-based fingerprint-matching technologies.

“ExpressID AFIS has been the most successful marketing achievement for Innovatrics in the past three years,” reads the Frost & Sullivan award recipient report. “Technology leadership achieved by ExpressID AFIS as the security enhancer, with speed advantage, has the ability to cater to various biometric application areas owing to its fast and accurate properties.”

ExpressID AFIS is a 1:N verification utilizing secured communication (SSL) between client stations (PC or Mobile) and your AFIS servers. It is a matching server software designed to power Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) for large-scale identification of people. ExpressID AFIS searches for fingerprints in the database and identifies individuals based on their fingerprints. ExpressID AFIS is used by system integrators to build fingerprint identification applications for their customers (government, enterprises, banks, hospitals, retail stores, etc.). With blazing-fast performance for large-scale fingerprint recognition systems, ExpressID AFIS is the fastest AFIS-matcher on the market, leveraging Innovatrics powerful computer hardware-independent server-side matching system and client SDK.

"We believe this award not only adds further credibility to the third-party test results and outstanding customer references for our market-leading technology,” says Viktor Fischer, Directory of Business Development at Innovatrics, “but it also proves our strategy of providing a powerful AFIS system, with significantly less total cost of ownership, to any country or private institution in the world."

ExpressID AFIS, like other Innovatrics products, includes a powerful SDK for developers to create customized fingerprint analysis and matching solutions. It employs out-of-the-box integration with many of today’s leading fingerprint scanners. For more information about ExpressID AFIS and other Innovatrics products, visit www.innovatrics.com.

About Innovatrics

Innovatrics is focused on providing fast, accurate, interoperable and sensor independent fingerprint recognition software for incorporation into final biometric applications. Innovatrics components offer exceptional performance perfectly suitable for both, high-end and low-cost biometric applications. Nowadays, independent software vendors, system integrators, biometric sensor manufacturers and AFIS constructors demand fast and accurate fingerprint recognition algorithm, capable of sensor interoperability and compliant with biometric standards. By working closely with these global partners, Innovatrics pursues its vision to bring the ultimate fingerprint recognition software to various biometric market segments and applications such as access control, network security and identification systems. For more information, visit www.innovatrics.com.

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