Assignment Series: 109 Assignment Code: CS5
VOICE&DATA: IDEMIA-GLOBAL BIOMETRIC PLATFORM
INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
MAIYARASI P 7376221SE124
IDEMIA is a multinational technology company headquartered in Courbevoie, France.
It provides identity-related security services, and sells facial recognition and other biometric
identification products and software to private companies and governments.
Hundreds of employees at the IDEMIA headquarters in Noida, UP, walk in every
morning and wave their fingers (horizontally) through an optical console on a device that is
now considered one of the world’s most advanced Contactless biometric access & attendance
solution. And partly developed in India. IDEMIA employees wave their fingers (without
touching) over the panel (called the Platen area) as the digital screen on top recognizes the
finger print, lights up and flashes a message — Access Permitted.
The Morpho Wave is a biometric device that reads 4 fingerprints in one go using an
Artificial Intelligence based algorithm along with a high-end graphics processor. It became
popular during the Pandemic, to overcome the fear of touching exposed surfaces and soon
became one of the world’s most advanced 3D fingerprint contactless authentication technology.
Morpho Wave is ideal for time & attendance, and access use cases in organizations that have
large numbers of employees.
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A large part of the Morpho Wave biometric algorithms have been created by IDEMIA’s
India team working out of its Noida headquarters. Nearly 800 engineers and software
developers work here to create high-end software for Machine Learning (ML), Artificial
Intelligence (AI), and video analytics solutions (for emerging technologies like Facial
Recognition, Payment Card solutions, and Identity).
The strong R&D team in Noida develops software solutions which are incorporated into
world-class hardware at factories in France and shipped to over 180 countries globally. This is
Indian R&D for global markets.
We are wielding technological expertise available in India with the presence of Global
R&D and Global Digital Platforms to create innovative solution based on biometrics, AI and
cryptography for our clients across the world,” said Matthew Foxton, IDEMIA India Regional
President.
“The Morpho Wave scanner is capable of handling up to 50 scans per minute,” said
Peeyush Jain, Vice President – India and APAC, Corporate Identity, Public Security and Identity
Business Unit. This is ideal for deploying in premises like factories and large enterprises where
large numbers of workers and employees’ stream into and out of the office or factory premises
at peak hours.
IDEMIA’s customers include India’s leading Oil and Gas companies, E-Commence
companies, commercial builders, Govt. organizations, financial institutions, Telecom
companies, industries and other establishments.
The IDEMIA biometric scanners (touch based) are also used by the UIDAI, for Aadhar
enrolments. One of the core technologies underlying IDEMIA products is the security and
encryption solution that ensures that these data point are never breached. Both the contact and
contactless products store the details in highly encrypted formats which are destroyed if there
is any tampering with the hardware.
The Morpho Wave scanners can be deployed for easy access to parking lots as drivers
simply wave and pass through, or at factories, entry gates and at Cafeterias in large
organizations. Employees biometrics is assimilated with payment solutions at these latter
locations. Food can be ordered and paid by just waving one’s hand over the device.
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The Morpho Wave scanner uses heavy duty Graphic Processing Units or GPUs (from
industry leader NVIDIA). The GPUs are capable of processing huge video files (which are the
3D template of fingers) and crunching them very fast for quick comparison with local database.
. The need for such high-end graphics processors is also required to ensure accurately capture
finger prints that are moving fast. The fingers move fairly quickly across the platen (in about
one second). These finger templates are quickly referenced to a stored database of approved
biometrics. It verifies and authenticates in milliseconds.
The Morpho Wave technology was originally launched in 2016. It has been installed
in more than 18,000 gates worldwide, according to IDEMIA. The Biometric device is
integrated with most of global access control platforms, like gates and turnstiles.
