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Interoperability testing validates that a product can interchange information and interoperate with one or more other products, normally at a specific level of interoperable system performance. Interoperability is essential to the secure, efficient and accurate operation of complex and large-scale systems where multiple biometric products, users, and data storage and processing points exist.
If you are a buyer, implementer or user, biometric products must be interoperable. Why purchase a product that will have a negative impact on your system’s overall performance and flexibility? One alternative is to procure the entire system from a single vendor who offers a single proprietary solution. In the long run, however, this leads to greater costs, limits product choice, and locks the buyer into certain biometric modalities and solutions. The better alternative is to make sure that all products, irrespective of their vendor, are interoperable according to national or international standards.
Vendors also benefit from interoperability, as they needn’t worry about how their product will interact (i.e., exchange data) with other products within a target system. If all products follow the same interoperability standard, then there is no worry and no need for costly patchwork solutions when integrating with other vendors’ proprietary solutions. Product development becomes easier and more attention can be given to improving product performance. Moreover, as the end users become more comfortable with standards conformant, interoperable biometric products, they are likely to apply biometrics to more areas and the entire biometrics market will grow.
| Modality |
INCITS |
ISO |
| Face Image |
385 |
19794-5 |
| Iris Image |
379 |
19794-6 |
| Signature/Sign |
395 |
19794-7 |
| Finger Skeletal |
None |
19794-8 |
| Vascular Image |
None |
19794-9 |
| Hand Geometry |
396 |
19794-10 |
| Finger Image |
381 |
19794-4 |
| Finger Pattern |
377 |
19794-3 |
| Finger Minutiae |
378 |
19794-2 |
Some of the ISO standards have also been adopted by ICAO, for the ePassport, and by ILO, for the Seafarer’s Identity Document.
Bion Biometrics has been at the forefront in developing interoperability standards and in testing biometric products and biometric enabled ID documents, including the ePassport and SID. Bion Biometrics is the only approved testing lab for ILO SID biometric products. Bion Biometrics has also run interoperability tests for other standards and continues to provide independent third party evaluation of biometric interoperability.
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