SANTA CLARA, Calif. - SecuGen has announced the release of new FDA02 fingerprint sensors that support the standardized fingerprint minutiae data format developed by the American National Standards Institute and the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards. Standards such as the ANSI INCITS 378-2004 are being required more and more in federal initiatives that are driving excellence in the use of biometrics, including the Transportation Security Authority's (TSA) Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) program.
SecuGen's FDA02 fingerprint sensor for embedded systems now supports the ANSI INCITS 378-2004 standard, which specifies the way fingerprint minutiae, such as the end-points and splits of fingerprint ridges, are formatted for a wide range of applications where automated fingerprint recognition is used. This ANSI INCITS standard plays a very important role in potentially large systems where there may be different kinds of fingerprint hardware that must work together and use interchangeable fingerprint biometric data.
