M2SYS's Hybrid Biometric Platform offers flexibility

The biometric recognition market lacks enterprise-ready, customizable, device-independent systems that allow organizations of any size to avoid being limited to one biometric modality or a single biometric device.

Frost & Sullivan says that this is why, based on its recent analysis of the biometrics market, it awardsAtlanta, Georgia-based M2SYS the 2011 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation for the company’s Hybrid Biometric Platform – which F&S describes as the first scalable, multi-modal biometrics system that supports fingerprint, finger vein, palm vein, and iris recognition from a single server.

“The ability to easily switch between four biometric engines from a single integration and software installation is the critical innovation of the M2SYS system,” said Frost & Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Neelima Sagar. “The total cost of ownership (TCO) of this multi-modal biometrics system, which supports fingerprint, finger vein, palm vein, and iris recognition technology with near 100 percent read rates, is significantly lower when compared to other options available in the marketplace.”

The challenges of developing biometric-matching software using a software development kit (SDK) that might be limited to a single modality or a particular biometric reader are addressed by M2SYS’s system, which enables software developers and end users to tailor solutions based on their unique needs. Hybrid Biometric Platform uses M2SYS’s patent-pending Bio-Plugin middleware, allowing software developers to integrate the system quickly and deploy the form of biometric technology that best suits the needs of their end-users.

“A single integration into Hybrid Biometric Platform avoids having to work with four separate SDKs and ensures 100 percent read rates even under the influence of various factors that negatively impact some forms of biometrics,” said Sagar. “This technology also helps users enjoy the flexibility of choosing from four different biometric modalities, or combining any of them, to customize their deployment model according to the unique needs of their end users.”

The Webserver and Appserver versions of the system integrate into Web-based and Windows-based software, respectively. End users also have the option of deploying Bio-Hyperpliance, a server-based, accelerated biometric processing system that utilizes a hyper-threaded, parallel processing architecture. Hybrid Biometric Platform supports the Microsoft operating system for Windows-based applications and many Web-based application environments for an efficient and seamless switch between biometric engines.

F&S says that each year it presents this award to the company that has developed an innovative element in a product by leveraging leading edge technologies. The award recognizes the value added features and benefits of the product and the increased ROI it offers customers, which in turn increases customer acquisition and overall market penetration potential.

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.