Journey

Dr. Sreeni Tripuraneni, Chairman & CEO of 4Gid, is a Vascular Surgeon by profession and was first introduced to biometric technologies while doing a course on Medical Informatics in UK. He was working on a project to create and link electronic records of patients to the biometric characteristics of the patients. He envisioned the impact that biometric technologies would play in developing countries and set up 4Gid.

Every success story has its share of initial stumbling blocks and 4Gid was no exception.

Initially when 4Gid started, very few people were aware of biometric solutions and biometric technologies were mainly associated with criminal’s identification and the general impression was that such kind of solutions existed only in movies like James Bond and Mission Impossible. 4Gid faced the daunting task of educating different stake holders in Governments that biometric solutions are more relevant in positive identification of the citizens and for delivering the benefits and services. 4Gid’s basic premise was, if the Government cannot identify its citizens positively, how will it ensure that it is delivering services to eligible beneficiaries.

Most of the existing Biometric technologies, products and solutions were developed to use in clean room environment for specific and limited applications. 4Gid had to significantly invest, innovate and modify these technologies, products and solutions to suit the needs of various applications, especially to work in adverse and harsh environments. The enrollment devices had to be modified, new algorithms had to be invented or existing algorithms had to be tweaked and more importantly the solutions had to be re-invented to be scalable to millions.

4Gid has achieved significant success in developing large scale ID solutions without compromising on the performance in terms of speed and accuracy. This allowed 4Gid to grow as a global leader and redefine the ID management space.

4Gid has partnered with the world’s leading biometric device and algorithm vendors to develop the much needed end to end Scalable Multi-modal Biometric Solutions. 4Gid has developed and patented its Multi-Modal Biometric Engine that integrates the world’s leading biometric algorithms on server side and enrollment and verification devices on the client side. This engine is vendor independent, based on biometric international standards, scalable to millions of subjects and is interoperable.