Biometric identification specifically the practice of using fingerprints as a method of identifying individuals has been in use since the late nineteenth century when Sir Francis Galton defined some of the points or characteristics from which fingerprints can be identified. These “Galton Points” are the foundation for the science of fingerprint identification, which has expanded and transitioned over the past century.
In the 1960, the emergence of computing technologies has made possible an automated biometric recognition system were developed. This has spurred the strong interest in the industries to further advanced sensor and algorithms development.
Today the mainstream biometric technologies are the fingerprints, iris and facial recognition. The proliferation of IP based High-Definition CCTV has further spun the real time video analytics algorithm harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to improve speed and accuracies.
In the biometric civil application arena, Malaysia is the global pioneer with the introduction of world first Electronics Passport in 1998 in which holder facial image was stored onto a microchip embedded into the passport. This grand innovation starts the revolution of the international travel documents with today over 150 countries have issued electronics passports (source from www.readid.com).
In 2001, Malaysian government launched the world first multi-purpose citizen Identity card or known as MyKAD which store the user facial photo and fingerprint in the form of a biometric template. MyKAD was the state of art at that time with the aggregation of national ID, Driving License, Passport, Health Data, eWallet, Banking ATM and PKI onto a single microprocessor embedded in a secure plastic card. The proliferations of MyKAD quantum leap the digital transformation within the government, financial institutions and Malaysian society as a whole. It is truly a “Malaysia Boleh” moment.
In 2013, Apple incorporate fingerprint sensor as means to unlock the iPhone accelerating the mass adoption of biometric technologies into mass consumer market. Today the use of biometrics has become indispensable in our everyday life.
GD Innovations is proud to partner with IDEMIA France in providing the state of art biometric technology and ecosystem solution to Malaysia. IDEMIA being the world leading biometric technology provider regularly participates in US NIST test that serves to evaluate the performances of biometric algorithm. IDEMIA has been constantly ranked among the top for both fingerprint and facial recognition. To date IDEMIA offers an extensive range of product and solutions from advanced fingerprint sensor, mobile tablet solution, non-contact AI powered fingerprint scanning, AI powered facial recognition terminal as well as video analytic solution.
