Merkatum has deployed numerous multi-biometric identity management solutions and services worldwide. The following Case Studies briefly describe project objectives and implementation scenarios that can be deployed at an end-user level*:

1. Health Care Provider - (Data Enrollment)

Customer required a re-enrollment of demographic data of a civilian population, including facial, 10-fingerprints, and signature images. Information used for issuance of new ID card for benefits management and for back-end identity analysis. The objective was to improve benefits allocation, to reduce operative costs, and to determine and act upon identity fraud.

2. Oil Company - (Credentialing)

Multi-national customer centrally-issued new smart ID cards (PVC, contactless, mag stripe, bar code) for all their worldwide employees. This enabled a centralized back-end identity management control (identity replication, fraud) and a distributed physical and logical access control (fingerprint-enabled) at a local level. The objective was to better supervise and control attendance and payroll activities globally.

3. Bank & Insurance Company - (Access Control)

Customer has a large number of knowledge-based workers (service-oriented) that handle important transactional and client information. Security was provided both at a physical and a logical acces control level with a card and a fingerprint. If employee has not entered the office, he can't login to his computer. The objective was to reduce security risks, fraud, and information leakage.

4. Federal Government Agency - (Time & Attendance)

Corporate customer required a system to increase employee productivity and to deter identity-fraud purported by employees "buddy punching" attendance cards on behalf of others. The installed system provides real-time authorization capabilities to supervisors and integration to payroll. Employees must provide employee ID and present fingerprint to access control device upon entry and exit of premises. The objective was to reduce identity fraud in payroll system and to increase overall employee productivity.

5. Border Management Agency - (Mobile Identification)

End-user required to verify the identity of certain individuals crossing the border by utilizing fingerprint, facial, and iris recognition technologies. Ruggedized mobile ID kits and PDA's enable officers to capture biometrics on the field and compare suspect's templates against a watchlist in real-time, considering WiFi or GPRS connectivity enabled. The objective was to improve security at borders and find criminals.

6. Department of Motor Vehicles - (Data Cleansing, "Scrubbing")

Customer required a fully-functional, very large facial recognition system (provided as a turnkey managed service) to determine the existence of duplicate identities in their driver license database. Replicate identities lead to either administrative issues (errors in the system) or to individuals posing under different names in order to cover-up possible criminal activities. The objective was twofold: to scrub (sanitize) the driver license database and to create new criminal investigation cases for law enforcement agencies.

7. Municipality - (FR Video Monitoring)

This municipality in Latin America utilizes their existing CCTV video monitoring system installed across the city to capture the faces of certain individuals at specific "choke points". Facial images are compared against a police department watchlist in real-time and an alerting system is activated as necessary. The objective of the system is to improve public safety levels and to capture individuals on expired warrants.

8. Police Department - (Fingerprint Card Digitalization)

End-user has been keeping a historical 10-print paper-based system (30,000 records) over the past 20 years. Physical examination of fingerprints directly from the card, one by one, was very slow and cumbersome. Thus, end-user scanned paper-based flat fingerprints cards to an automated identification system for quick searches of non-latent prints. The objective was to speed-up the investigation cycle.

9. State Government - (Enterprise Search & Integration)

End-user requests to integrate over 100 databases to a single data warehouse for subsequent complex data searching purposes. Data must be kept updated, secured, searchable, and available by means of biometric and enterprise search technologies. An alerting system, supported by a business intelligence application, automatically informs users of certain events triggered by the system. The objective of the system is to provide field officers and analysts with real-time intelligence for security and safety purposes.

10. Sheriff's Office - (Facial Recognition)

A county Sheriff's Office has a legacy database of 20,000 photographs of convicted individuals that is being used for criminal investigation purposes. The agency requires a simple, cost-effective, desktop facial recognition system to quickly search a picture image of a suspect against the whole database. Based on a resulting facial matching gallery set, a number of investigation leads are generated and pursued.

* Customer names have been omitted due to confidentiality constraints