Through its Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Universidad Católica del Maule signed an agreement to implement an identification device, using one of the most modern and secure biometrics tools currently available.
An identification system, based on palm vein biometrics, will be used by the Gendarmerie in its facilities, because of an agreement signed with the Faculty of Engineering Sciences of the Universidad Católica del Maule.
This is an unbeatable technology, created by researchers from the campus.
«This agreement puts us at the forefront of the control system, with a technology that is not even available in similar institutions,» said the regional director of Gendarmerie, Colonel Edgardo Caniulef.
The device–capable of recognizing a person in less than two seconds–is in its pilot stage and is supported by the National Research and Development Agency, ANID.
«Both gendarmes and people deprived of their freedom, as well as their families, must be identified when they enter a prison, and it is essential to rule out any doubts. Likewise, when we have to release a convicted person or the subject is in the process of being transferred to the court or hospital, it is important to have a certain identification», explained the authority.
For the authors of the project, the next step will be industrial scaling.
«So far, there is no known way of falsifying this technology; it is also not possible to impersonate an individual with someone else’s hand, for example, because the sensor requires blood circulation to reflect the configuration of the veins. It is a very robust method, which can achieve a 100 percent accuracy rate,» said the director of the initiative and UCM academic, Ricardo Barrientos.
Barrientos, who holds a doctorate in Computer Science, is developing the project together with doctors Marco Mora, Ruber Hernández, and Luis Laurens, joined by master’s degree Joseline Sepúlveda–all researchers at UCM.
The project is also supported by Dr. Juan Botero and Dr. Gaurav Jaswal, from ITM University of Colombia and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, respectively.
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