August 18, 2009
4G Identity Solutions Wins Large-Scale Unique ID Project
90 Million Citizen Database is the Largest ID Management Database in the World.
Hyderabad, India, August 18, 2009 – 4G Identity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (4G ID) announced that it has been awarded the contract for the world’s largest iris recognition identity management application and data de-duplication processing. The state Government Solutions of Andhra Pradesh, India awarded the 90 million-person ID management contract to 4G ID after a stringent technical evaluation process, through global competitive bidding. The value of the base contract is in excess of US$6 million.
The contract calls for the consolidation and de-duplication of existing database of 82 million citizen demographic details with iris codes of 56 million citizens. These people were enrolled in separate regional databases over the last four years. Due to the limitations of the original enrollment application, the databases could not be consolidated, nor could they be checked for fraud resulting from duplicate enrollments. 4G ID will be responsible for performing over 6.26 quadrillion (6,262,668,889,152,840) iris matches in search of duplicate enrollments. In addition, 4G ID will be employing demographic matching software to search for duplicate enrollments in records where no irises were enrolled. To accomplish this task in sixty days, 4G ID will deploy a farm of blade servers, L-1 Identity Solutions’ SIRIS matching engine with the next generation algorithms by Dr. John Daugman and 4G ID’s Multi-biometric Identity Platform.
In addition to consolidating the existing databases and identifying existing fraud, 4G ID is tasked with creating a web-based online enrollment application to support a unique Citizen ID Program capable of serving every citizen of Andhra Pradesh (90 million citizens). This application will support enrollment, fraud screening, and management reporting. It will also be capable of integration with applications from the Housing Department and the Rural Development Department, among others. This deployment will be the largest unique ID management system in the world. One of the key advantages envisaged as an outcome of the project is that it will result in eliminating identity-related fraud and create an efficient and effective delivery mechanism for Government Solutionss to ensure that the entitlements reach the targeted beneficiaries.
Dr. Sreeni Tripuraneni, CEO, said, “This Unique Citizen ID database can be used as the basis for identifying and authenticating a person for delivering various Government Solutions services through a single system, rather than all Government Solutions departments duplicating efforts in creating infrastructure, systems and procedures. This project will set a benchmark not only for other state Government Solutionss in India but also for many of the developed and developing nations where billions of dollars are spent on various Government Solutions schemes and services.”
4G ID’s solution was chosen after a stringent evaluation of nine short-listed companies that were issued a Request for Proposal. The evaluation included a Proof of Concept de-duplication test for one of the districts and included metrics for time taken and accuracy of the duplicates found. 4G ID was the clear winner in this test which included field verification of results.
“We are truly excited to be creating the world’s largest ID database by deploying real time enrollment and fraud screening application using contemporary technologies” said Dr. Lakshmi, CTO.
About 4G Identity Solutions
4G ID is a leader in developing and deploying Identity Management solutions. 4G’s modular software provides an Identity Management platform that inter-operates with multiple biometric devices, biometric algorithms, and demographic search engines. The platform allows 4G ID to integrate best-of-breed technologies and offers low-cost, interoperable, secure, and scalable solutions. 4G’s strengths are ideal for creating and deploying trusted, Unique ID databases and then leveraging the databases to create multiple applications and programs. As an early market entrant, 4G ID has developed significant expertise and penetration across multiple sectors including Citizen ID, Commercial ID, Law Enforcement Solutions and Enterprise Entry Access Control.
For more information, visit www.4Gid.com
Contact:
N. Ramachandra Rao
4G Identity Solutions
Tel : +91-40-23558789
Mobile : +91-8008994747
Email: ram@4gid.com
