LG Electronics USA’s Iris Technology Division and Integrated Engineering (IE), a Dutch developer and manufacturer of contactless smart cards announced a collaboration.
They aim to integrate IE’s new card readers with LG’s Iris Technology for use in ICAO-compliant travel documents and a new generation of electronic authentication-purposed passports.
The two companies will initially work to combine two new products unveiled at ISC West: LG’s third generation of IrisAccess, an iris recognition product and Integrated Engineering’ new e-Document reader.
What they say
Mohammed Murad, LG’s Director of Sales and Strategic Alliances said. “Our new IrisAccess 4000 series is precisely what specifiers and developers of Border Control and National ID programs have been looking for. The high accuracy of iris recognition and the most user-friendly interfaces in the business provide the lowest FTE (failure to enrol) and FRR (false reject rates) LG was first to acknowledge the desire for multi-factor token-based authentication. We developed the first protocol to check for existing records and issue smart cards “out of the box” as part of our basic software suite. Now this generation of IrisAccess not only has new iData® software to issue more varieties of cards out of the box, the readers themselves are device-embedded. The chip reading versatility of the readers and Integrated Engineering’s expertise and commitment adds extraordinary range to the LG Identity Chek solution set.”
JP Hulsker, Managing Director of the Netherlands-based smartcard technology powerhouse remarked “The new relationship with LG’s Iris Technology Division portends to be an extraordinarily formidable technology collaboration between two companies with global reach and a global customer base. With the combination of these two leading platforms within their respective technologies, our customers can be assured of the best possible solution—something essential when one person, or a small group of people slipping through a security net can wreak havoc. The fact that the platform will deliver the highest confidence authentication with iris and the wide variety of passport chips our readers enable while providing the capability to add the facial recognition that so many nations and ICAO also wants, make this the most natural of fits for one of the most important components of our business.”
