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Aug 17, 2005
Steria presents a mobile version of FIT™, its biometric solution for digitally recording and transmitting fingerprint images to Police in the German Land of Hesse.
Steria has presented a prototype mobile version of its biometric solution, Steria FIT1 , to police in the German Land of Hessen . This new technology serves to rapidly identify individuals, regardless of their location.
Hessen police force were looking for a mobile technology solution for identifying and transmitting prints in a bid to locate and apprehend dangerous individuals and thus prevent them from committing crimes. This type of technology is particularly well suited to maintaining security at busy events, such as football matches.
Hessen police chose the Steria FIT solution in the scope of their project to digitise all standard identification procedures.
Hessen police force were looking for a mobile technology solution for identifying and transmitting prints in a bid to locate and apprehend dangerous individuals and thus prevent them from committing crimes. This type of technology is particularly well suited to maintaining security at busy events, such as football matches.
Hessen police chose the Steria FIT solution in the scope of their project to digitise all standard identification procedures.
The Land of Hessen , along with Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the BKA (Bundeskriminalamt, the country’s federal criminal police force), is taking part in a pilot project known as “Fast Identification”, which was set up by the German Ministry of the Interior.
The goal of the project is to test the use of mobile equipment for rapidly identifying potentially dangerous individuals, regardless of their location.
Steria’s mobile system comprises a small scanner – about the size of a pocket PC – on which Steria FIT software is installed. Four of the suspect’s fingers (pre-defined) are optoelectronically scanned and the data transmitted in a matter of seconds to the BKA’s AFIS (Automatic Fingerprint Identification System) database for automatic comparison. If a match is found, it is sent to a dactylographer who checks the result and provides confirmation, or vice versa. The result is then sent to the relevant police station or back to the mobile scanner.
Hessen police force chose the Steria FIT solution in the scope of an ongoing project to digitise all standard police identification procedures. The solution has been integrated into the force’s new IT environment and its police stations equipped with live scanners.
IT equipment and software have been in use at all the region’s police stations and offices since late March 2005, making Hessen the first German Land to be fully fitted out with digital identification technology.
1Steria FIT: Fingerprint Image Transmission
Thanks to Steria FIT, Hessen police officers can now instantly and digitally record dactyloscopic data (hand and fingerprints) from suspects and transmit them in just a few seconds to the BKA. Steria FIT thus assists identification services officers by providing high quality digital data and fully secure transmissions.
Steria FIT: supporting the exchange of biometric data throughout Europe
Steria FIT software is used by police forces in 23 countries throughout Europe. In Germany, national polices forces of ten federal states as well as international police forces like the German border police (BGS: Bundesgrenzschutz) use FIT. It is also applied by the European Commission in the scope of the EURODAC project. Steria has thus developed an automated fingerprint identification system (based in Brussels) and an electronic fingerprint image transmission system for asylum request management, in use in 16 European countries. This system had already handled around two million immigration applications and requests for asylum by the end of 2004.
The goal of the project is to test the use of mobile equipment for rapidly identifying potentially dangerous individuals, regardless of their location.
Steria’s mobile system comprises a small scanner – about the size of a pocket PC – on which Steria FIT software is installed. Four of the suspect’s fingers (pre-defined) are optoelectronically scanned and the data transmitted in a matter of seconds to the BKA’s AFIS (Automatic Fingerprint Identification System) database for automatic comparison. If a match is found, it is sent to a dactylographer who checks the result and provides confirmation, or vice versa. The result is then sent to the relevant police station or back to the mobile scanner.
Hessen police force chose the Steria FIT solution in the scope of an ongoing project to digitise all standard police identification procedures. The solution has been integrated into the force’s new IT environment and its police stations equipped with live scanners.
IT equipment and software have been in use at all the region’s police stations and offices since late March 2005, making Hessen the first German Land to be fully fitted out with digital identification technology.
1Steria FIT: Fingerprint Image Transmission
Thanks to Steria FIT, Hessen police officers can now instantly and digitally record dactyloscopic data (hand and fingerprints) from suspects and transmit them in just a few seconds to the BKA. Steria FIT thus assists identification services officers by providing high quality digital data and fully secure transmissions.
Steria FIT: supporting the exchange of biometric data throughout Europe
Steria FIT software is used by police forces in 23 countries throughout Europe. In Germany, national polices forces of ten federal states as well as international police forces like the German border police (BGS: Bundesgrenzschutz) use FIT. It is also applied by the European Commission in the scope of the EURODAC project. Steria has thus developed an automated fingerprint identification system (based in Brussels) and an electronic fingerprint image transmission system for asylum request management, in use in 16 European countries. This system had already handled around two million immigration applications and requests for asylum by the end of 2004.