The newest development of IDENCOM in the field of fingerprint recognition is the BioKey® 3000 module which received particularly big interest. It is worldwide the first stand-alone fingerprint module which is developed under consideration of VDS-Certification.

This module works battery operated which an expensive and lavish wiring is dropped through. The regular business turns out very cheap through this, 3 to 4-course batteries which approx. suffice in the normal business for 3 to 5 years are needed merely.

Another advantage is the low size of the BioKey® 3000 module of 26 mm x 67 mm or 26 mm x 49 mm. Without great effort it can be installed in door mountings.

In the BioKey® 3000 module was the fundamentally improved BioKey® recognition software put to use. The recognition rate increased from 200% up to 300% as intensive statistical tests have proved.

The module is particularly well suitable for a widespread use, which has an effect on the price attractiveness of the BioKey® 3000.

Furthermore the solution for the e-passport was presented. It is a ICAO concurring product for the processing of the Machine Readable Documents (MRD) like passports and visas which is based on the biometrics and RFID technology of IDENCOM. Prototypes of the electronic passports were already realized for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and some Scandinavian countries.

With this solution it is possible, as demanded by ICAO, to store two fingerprints and a face picture on a RFID chip in the JPEG format with the help of the IDENCOM software. A Philips SmartMX P5CD072 chip with 72 Kbytes of memory is used here. The chip and the antenna are integrated in the passport or visa.

The software consits of two parts, the registration and verifying. At registration the fingerprint and face picture of the passport holder are saved on the chip at the edition of the passport by the respective authorities.