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Aware Inc

Website - http://www.aware.com/biometrics

Aware Inc, is a leading technology and software supplier for the telecommunications and biometrics industries. Aware has pioneered innovations at telecommunications standards-setting organizations for DSL and home networking. Aware offers advanced DSL test and diagnostics products in the form of hardware and software components we sell to OEMs in the automated test head and outside plant handheld tester industry. Our solutions are used by service providers to identify line faults, diagnostic subscriber problems and optimize performance for delivery of IPTV. Aware is also a veteran of the biometrics industry, providing software that targets existing and emerging biometric market opportunities. We have had a strong position in fingerprint enrollment systems and recently added products for border control and secure credential applications. Aware is a publicly held company (Nasdaq: AWRE - News) based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Whether your concerns are for accessibility to physical environments, such as buildings or countries, or access to transactions and information, Aware biometrics offers commercial innovative biometrics software application tools to meet your needs.

Aware has been a leading provider of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), standards-based biometrics software products since 1992. Our products enable solution providers and system integrators with interoperable, standards-compliant, field-proven biometric functionality for applications including credentialing, border management, and law enforcement. Aware continues to build upon this legacy as a leading provider of innovative, high-quality, state-of-the-art biometrics software. Our suite of software tools are included in solutions deployed by product vendors and system integrators, and then used by federal, state, and local government agencies and enterprises around the world. End users include the FBI and other U.S. Department of Justice agencies, the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, and government agencies throughout Europe, Asia, and South America.

Aware biometrics software products include:

Aware Autocapture and Compliance Assurance
FastCapture with LiveScan application programming interface provides autocapture ability of fingerprint imaging. It also provides definition and scoring on right and left hands, angle measurements as well as detect missing fingers on a platen edge in real time
QualityCheck utilizes algorithms to determine the quality and usefulness of fingerprint images. This provides the operator the ability to determine if there may be issues with the image that can be addressed while screening the images.
PreFace integrates enrollment and individual identification of facial imaging, optimizes quality visuals for matching applications and screens for non-compliance while capturing image. Matching algorithms identify location of eyes, nose mouth, as well as eye contract, brightness and range of facial features, and size and position of eyes, head, mouth and eye obstructions and compresses images into JPEG formats.
Segmentation automates individual images of finger, slap, palm of the hand and hand images from a single scanned handprint image. It can also capture two thumbprints at a time simultaneously, making the process more time efficient.
SequenceCheck is designed for systems that involve finger print images in their processes with measurement and matching images from live or card scans.

Aware Inc. biometrics Data Formatting and Reading

NISTPack enables law enforcement agencies, systems integrators, and solution providers to create, view, edit, and print compliant data objects and transactions, ensuring images are compressed and formatted correctly for interoperability with other agencies or systems.
NISTPack Mobile library for Pocket PCs is like NISTPack but optimized for Windows CE, allowing compression of fingerprint and facial images.
M1Pack can be used to manage ANSI/INCITS and ISO/IEC 1 SC 37 compliant biometric data, providing read, write and validation of images, along with compression software.
ICAOPack utility and application programming interface reads, writes, validates and views biometric images and template data. It ensures that data generated can be read by other systems and that other standard compliant systems can read it.
PIVPack software development kit allows system developers to format, validate and analyse biometric, biographic, and security object data. It can integrate data into PIV registration, personalization, and card reader applications as well as create XML files.
Aware Inc. biometrics Application Server (BioSP)
Aware Inc. Biometrics’ Services Platform is useful for applications that require network distribution, and sharing of data with other system components through a configurable, service-oriented application.
Standard Compliant Image Compression
- WSQ1000 is the industry’s implementation of the FBI’s Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) digital fingerprint compression algorithm. Designed for compression and management of high-resolution, grayscale fingerprint images, Aware Inc. Biometrics guarantees FBI compliance with each WSQ license.
- JPEG2000 compresses face and iris images to biometrics standards and characteristically has superior performance to JPEG for such imaging.

Aware Inc. biometrics Matching

Aware's XM software development kit provides MINEX-certified and INCITS 378-compliant fingerprint detail extraction, template generation, and 1:1 matching that is required for PIV ID card identification and verification. XM integrates biometrics into a comprehensive enrolment, personalization, and reader software solution.

Fingerprint Cards

Aware Inc. biometrics AccuScan is an add-on module for NISTPack, enables consumer-grade flatbed scanners the ability to scan paper ten-print cards, compliant with FBI image quality specifications.
AccuScanMB is an enhanced version of AccuScan that enables parallel “multi-batch” fingerprint card scanning of up to six automatic document feeder flatbed scanners. Six scanners running in parallel can process nearly 1000 500-ppi cards per hour.
AccuPrint is a specialized fingerprint image-printing library designed for institutions and agencies that must generate high-quality digitized fingerprint printouts. It is an affordable printing solution, designed for off-the-shelf laser printers. AccuPrint can print a fingerprint, palm, or an entire agency specific ten-print card with text and graphics. It has the ability to meet FBI certification when used with 1200dpi laser printers.
Aware Inc. biometrics AccuPrint Stand-Alone Library - AccuPrint stand-alone library accepts uncompressed TIF, BMP, or raw image fingerprint image files, processing each image separately, it can produce new, high-quality, images for printing.

Aware Inc. biometrics Application Specific Bundles

Aware’s PIVSuite is a group of software development kits that sustain FIPS 201 compliant development of registration, identity proofing, ID card personalization, and issuance applications.
ICAOSuite software development kits are used to develop biometric and biographic enrollment, e-passport personalization and reading, and fingerprint verification in full compliance with ICAO 9303 and companion standards.
Aware’s CaptureSuite supports the development of quality and compliant applications for capture of either live or card scan fingerprint images.

Aware biometrics Enrollment Reference Application.

Aware biometrics Universal Registration Client (URC) is a configurable .NET application that uses Aware libraries to perform biometric data capture, analysis, matching, and formatting functions. URC may be implemented as an application programmable interface or customized to meet unique requirements.

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