[Reader-list] Identification experiments

[jeebesh at sarai.net]

More news on identification technologies. The new enterprenatorial 
imagination and alliances are worth noting. The compact of defence, police 
and technologists in creating new forms of identification is going great 
guns. The bodies of the prisoners in Cherrapalli prison in Hyderabad are now 
the new objects of biometric experimentation. What follows is a website 
declaration of capability by the company conducting the experiment, and a 
news report that happily reports on this new pilot project. 

Cheers (?)
Jeebesh
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[The Capability]

http://www.ilitec.com/cias.htm

BIOMETRICS	Citizen ID & Authentication System (CIAS) 
A comprehensive system for acquiring and storage of personal data by using 
specialized equipment and services. ILI incorporates individual identity & 
authentication systems through Biometric technology enabling premier high-end 
data availability and personal identification systems. The technology could 
be used in Elections, Distributions, Personalization, Disbursements and other 
e-governance requirements.
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[The News Report]
MONDAY, 4 JUNE 2001
http://www.asianageonline.com/

DEFENCE SNOOPING MAY GET TOUGHER SOON
By K. Raghu
Bangalore, June 3

Snooping in key defence installations and highly sensitive areas like nuclear 
plants may become a thing of the past, if a proposal involving the use of 
Biometrics is accepted. 

The technology, being developed by the Bangalore-based ILI Technologies is an 
integrated security system that includes finger print, voice and digital 
signatures with radio frequency identification. 
ÒThe proposal has been sent to the defence ministry and is in the preliminary 
stage,Ó Mr B.R. Badrinath, managing director, ILI Technologies said without 
elaborating further. 

The company has come out with a security, tracking and authentication 
solution, which combines Biometrics, the system of pattern recognition of an 
individual through physiological and behavioural characteristics such as 
fingerprint, voice, iris, hand, signature and face with RFID technology. 

The RFID technology uses radio waves to help track, monitor, record, automate 
and identify an individual through a remote scanner. The individual, who may 
be an employee or a visitor, will be given an identification tag that is 
impossible to interchange. 
ÒThis is ideal for high-security zones,Ó Mr Badrinath told The Asian Age. 
This system more or less works like the Prisoner Identification and Tracking 
System which is being implemented as a pilot project at the Cherrapalli 
prison in Hyderabad. 
The 150-acre prison houses over 3000 inmates, and is the first prison in the 
country to experiment this technology. ÒWe have installed local positioning 
systems which provides real time information on the movements and whereabouts 
of the prisoner who has a label tagged on him. If he removes the label, it 
triggers an alarm,Ó Mr Badrinath said.

The label which scans the bio-physical data of the inmate with his criminal 
records cannot be interchanged. ÒThe biometrics value of the body heat 
emanating from each individual differs,Ó he said. In what may be termed as 
futuristic, ILI Technologies has also introduced solutions for vehicle 
tracking.
And monitoring, fleet monitoring, asset tracking among others. The existing 
registration cards and books for vehicles could be replaced with a electronic 
RF tag, which serves as a black box, that can be tracked using RFID based LPS 
technology. 
ÒWith the RFID technology, fleet monitoring can be done accurately with 
updated information on the position and operating status of every vehicle 
which will ensure optimal utilisation of personnel and vehicles. Monitoring 
on-line in real time through the web is also possible,Ó Mr Badrinath said.

The company which has on its board, global biometrics expert Mr Anil K. Jain 
has several futuristic technologies in the pipeline including a citizen 
identification and authentication system that may be useful for e-governance. 
ÒWe can build a comprehensive citizen database from birth to death with 
unique ID and photograph for each individual through biometrics and RFID,Ó Mr 
Badrinath added. 

MONDAY
4 JUNE 2001
http://www.asianageonline.com/