3M Cogent

3M Cogent is committed to providing the highest quality biometric identification systems, products and services with unparalleled innovation, accuracy and speed.

3M Cogent has delivered some of the fastest and most accurate systems to customers all over the world. Our total cost of ownership is lower than competing solutions because our systems are backward-compatible with earlier versions, interoperable with a variety of industry-standard software and hardware platforms, and able to scale linearly in performance to meet customers’ evolving needs. 3M Cogent's solutions also reduce operational costs by providing advanced automation to increase staff productivity. For customers that deliver services such as law enforcement, healthcare, welfare, voter identification, and immigration, 3M Cogent sets the standards for growth, scalability, new technology innovation, and, most importantly, investment protection.

Our vision at 3M Cogent is to provide the highest quality biometric identification systems, products, and services with unparalleled innovation, accuracy, and speed.

We offer our customers state-of-the-art system solutions, allowing them to be leaders in their own fields.

3M Cogent is a global biometric identification solutions provider to governments, law enforcement agencies, and commercial enterprises. 3M Cogent provides the highest quality identification systems, products and services with leading technology, accuracy and speed. 3M Cogent's Automated Fingerprint/Palmprint Identification Systems, or AFIS, enable customers to capture fingerprint and palm print images electronically, encode prints into searchable files, and accurately compare a set of fingerprints/palm prints to a database containing potentially millions of prints in seconds.

For over twenty years, we have researched, designed, developed, and marketed fingerprint biometrics technologies that incorporate advanced concepts in fluid dynamics, neural networks, image enhancement, data mining, and massively parallel processing. Our leading-edge software algorithms, integrated with optimized hardware, enable our customers to cost-effectively achieve the industry-leading accuracy rates and performance. We support the latest standards in fingerprint biometrics and have based our systems on cost-effective, industry-standard hardware and software platforms. We are focused on enabling our customers to expand the capabilities of their systems as their biometric needs evolve.

GOVERNMENT
For government agencies requiring large-scale, user-friendly, real-time identification solutions, 3M Cogent's technology can be tailored to meet the most stringent accuracy and throughput requirements. Only 3M Cogent can rapidly perform an end-to-end search of a database containing millions of records without using pattern classifiers or other filters that diminish accuracy. 3M Cogent supports government agencies that provide welfare, refugee, asylum, immigration, and public health services by reducing fraud and helping maintain the integrity of entitlement and benefit programs.

LAW ENFORCEMENT
3M Cogent meets the needs of law enforcement agencies by providing state-of-the-art fingerprint and palm print identification technology. 3M Cogent’s systems allow seamless integration of customer workflows with existing information systems, external AFIS, Mobile Identification devices, LiveScans, mugshot systems, etc. 3M Cogent offers law enforcement agencies biometric identification solutions that are cost-effective, FBI-certified, and fully NIST-compliant.

COMMERCIAL
3M Cogent delivers cost-effective commercial solutions, including solutions for biometric access control, biometrically secure payment, and handheld portable biometric devices. For the OEM market, 3M Cogent’s state-of-the-art ASIC chip can be integrated to perform all the biometric operations. 3M Cogent licenses its patented image reconstruction algorithm for linear fingerprint sensors and its field-proven biometric matching engine that can be ported into new or existing products requiring higher security.