Suprema to provides palm-print scanners to Poland, Lithuania
Korean company Suprema win contracts to equip the Polish and Lithuanian police forces with palm-print live scanners; the contracts are part of EU-funded effort to upgrade the two countries’ criminal identification methods so these methods could be integrated with the European Union’s Schengen Visa Information System (VIS) project
Korean company Suprema, Inc., announced that the company’s RealScan-F palm-print live scanner has been selected for the Automated Fingerprint Identification (AFIS) systems of the Polish National Police and Lithuania’s Citizenship & Migration Affairs.
Until the end of 2010, the Polish National Police (Komenda Glowna Policji) will be provided with Suprema RealScan-F palm-print live scanners for its nationwide criminal AFIS operation. This criminal AFIS for forensic investigation requires live scanners with stringent selection criteria on the image quality and recognition performance, and the RealScan-F was selected through 12-month field testing with a number of other vendor’s devices.
The company says that the RealScan-F live scanner has been qualified for the highest standard of FBI certification (IQS Appendix F), and captures single flat/roll, two finger flats, four finger slap, writer’s edge, and palm prints. The device performs at a scanning rate of more than fifteen frames per second (in rolled fingerprint capture) which enables faster processing speed, making the device suitable for mass fingerprinting application such as nationwide AFIS operation.
The RealScan-F is equipped with powerful DSP and runs with highly capable image-processing software featuring Suprema’s advanced live-scan technology. The device also features a color LCD control panel, wide 5.2-inch platen, and on-device operation keys.
Suprema also won the Lithuanian government’s Citizenship and Migration Affairs project. Funded by the European Union, the project replaces legacy AFIS equipment with RealScan-F live scanners in the nation’s criminal AFIS. The Lithuanian government has a plan to develop and integrate its newly implemented AFIS with the European Union’s Schengen Visa Information System (VIS) project.
Suprema provides a wide range of biometric ID management solution from FBI-certified live scanners to ARINC compliant electronic passport readers.
In 2010 the company won number of public projects in China, United States, Brazil, Bulgaria, and India.
