Hyderabad: 4G Identity Solutions, a city-
based ID cards maker and consultancy, today said it has won
two bids to provide fingerprint and iris recognition devices
to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
These devices will be used in the UIDAI Proof of Concept
(PoC) tests. The objective of the UIDAI feasibility tests is
to establish a definitive baseline for biometric data quality
under Indian conditions. Subsequent to those tests, the
devices and the data collected in the PoC will be used in
the UIDAIs biometrics Centre of Competence, the company said
in a statement today.
When contacted, a company official said that they need to
supply twenty devices each for finger print and iris
recognition and they will have to enrol 30,000 people.
"We were given six weeks time to complete the prelude
of the project, based on which the Government will go for
pilot project," the company official said.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
has been set up by the Government of India with a mandate to
issue a unique identification number to all 1.2 billion
residents of India.
UIDAI invited global bids in December last year for
supply, installation and commissioning of biometric &
fingerprint devices. As many as 19 companies participated in
the bidding process in which 4G ID won.
Sreeni Tripuraneni, the CEO of 4G ID, said 4G IDs
projects, solutions and products are engineered for
country-level scalability, accuracy, availability, usability,
flexibility, inter-operability, cost-effectiveness, security
and speed and is trusted by governments, corporations and
international bodies.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 22:12