Demonstrations at Biometrics Technology Expo will highlight a broad array
of biometric enrollment software tools and service-oriented middleware
BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq:
AWRE), a global provider of imaging and biometrics software, today
celebrates its long history of success in providing high-quality,
innovative software products to the biometrics industry. Aware will
demonstrate a comprehensive suite of products in their booth (#501) at the
2007 Biometrics Technology Expo, which takes place in conjunction with the
Biometrics Consortium Conference from September 11th through 13th in
Baltimore. In 1992, Aware played a vital role in developing and
commercializing image compression technology used to create digital
versions of the fingerprint images that make up the FBI's IAFIS fingerprint
database for background checks, which now contains over fifty million
records. Over the years, Aware consistently expanded its product line in
anticipation of new market requirements and applications, such as
e-passports, employee credentials, and border management systems. Today,
Aware offers among the most comprehensive offerings of client- and
server-based biometrics software available in the marketplace, backed by a
level of technical support that serves as a benchmark in the industry.
"As a veteran of the biometrics industry, Aware is able to provide
software products that incorporate lessons learned over many years of
deployments with hundreds of customers in a wide variety of applications
and environments," commented David Benini, Aware's director of product
marketing. "We remain committed as ever to leveraging our unique expertise
towards development of high-quality, reliable software products, and we
look forward to contributing to the many future successes of biometrics
industry to come."
Aware will be highlighting several products at the event, including
Aware's Biometric Services Platform (BioSP(TM)), a service-oriented
architecture server solution that centrally performs a wide variety of
biometric image and data processing tasks, including data formatting, image
processing and compliance checking, data routing, and archival. BioSP also
performs aggregation, transport, and management of biometric enrollment
data and its subsequent submission to multiple destinations, such as
required for authentication, background checks, card personalization, and
identity management. BioSP is an evolution of Aware's Biometric Workflow
Platform (BWP) that introduces several advancements including a
comprehensive web services based API.
Also highlighted at the event is PIVSuite(TM), a family of software
development kits designed for developers and integrators to design PIV
enrollment solutions compliant with FIPS 201. PIVSuite provides key
biometric functionality with sample applications, including automated
biometric facial and fingerprint image capture, image and data compliance
assurance, MINEX- certified fingerprint template generation and matching
for biometric identity verification, fingerprint background checking, and
ID card data formatting and reading. Together, Aware's PIVSuite and BioSP
fulfill a broad range of requirements for credentialing system
registration, identity authentication, ID personalization, and logical and
physical access control.
About BioSP
Aware's BioSP is a modular, flexible, server-based software platform
that enables developers and integrators to rapidly build and deploy
centralized multimodal biometric data processing solutions in support of a
service- oriented architecture (SOA). BioSP facilitates automation by using
biometric and biographic data to drive related business processes. It is
ideally suited for applications that require the collection of biometrics
throughout a distributed network, and subsequent aggregation, analysis,
processing, and integration of this data with other enterprise solutions.
Examples include the use of remote enrollment workstations to capture
biometric data and submit it to a central database, IDMS, CMS, or a
biometric identification system. BioSP can manage all aspects of the
transaction workflow, including messaging, submissions, responses, and
logging. More information about BioSP is available at http://www.aware.com/BioSP.
About PIVSuite
PIVSuite is a family of biometric software components available for
integrators to develop standards-compliant enrollment, card
personalization, and biometric identity verification solutions. PIVSuite
provides important biometric functionality required for standards
compliance, including automated biometric facial and fingerprint image
capture, image and data compliance assurance, fingerprint template
generation and matching, fingerprint background checking, and ID card
formatting and reading. PIVSuite includes PreFace(TM) for facial image
autocapture. Another component of PIVSuite, Aware XM(TM) "extract and
match" software, is approved in both the Template Generator and Template
Matcher categories. Aware XM provides ANSI/INCITS 378- compliant,
MINEX-certified fingerprint minutiae template generation and matching for
1:1 biometric verification applications. In addition, PIVSuite includes
Aware's NISTPack(TM) for fingerprint background check submissions,
FastCapture(TM) for real-time tenprint autocapture, and AccuScan(TM) for
fingerprint card scan. Each component of the PIVSuite can be licensed and
integrated individually.
About PIV and the new government employee and contractor IDs
Biometric specifications for the PIV government employee ID program
were published by NIST in Special Publication 800-76. These specifications
are part of a larger body of work headed by NIST to standardize
biometric-enabled ID cards for all federal government employees and
contractors, as specified in the new "FIPS 201: Personal Identity
Verification (PIV) for Federal Employees and Contractors". This new
standard is a result of Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12
issued by President Bush in August 2004, which mandates standardization of
IDs and their use for the purpose of controlling access to government
facilities and information systems. More information on HSPD-12 can be
found online at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040827-8.html. The Aware
tools are designed to assist government contractors with standards-based
design requirements for the data acquired by the enrollment systems, stored
on the ID cards, and read by the verification systems. More information is
available at http://www.aware.com/piv.
About Aware
Aware is a veteran of the biometrics industry, providing biometric and
imaging software components used in government systems worldwide since
1992. Aware's interoperable, standard-compliant, field-proven imaging
products are used in a number of applications, from border management to
criminal justice to medical imaging. Aware is also a leading technology
supplier for the telecommunications industries. For more than ten years,
Aware has pioneered innovations at telecommunications standards-setting
organizations and continues to develop and market DSL silicon intellectual
property and test and diagnostics products. Its StratiPHY(TM) IP product
line supports DSL standards, including ADSL2+ and VDSL2, and has been
broadly licensed to leading semiconductor companies. Telecom equipment
vendors and phone companies use Aware's DSL test and diagnostics modules
and Dr. DSL(R) software to help provision DSL circuits globally. Aware is a
publicly held company (Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
http://www.aware.com
Safe Harbor Warning
Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding
future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates
or projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the
biometrics markets. Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated
by such statements. The biometric factors include, but are not limited to:
market acceptance of our biometric products, changes in contracting
practices of government or law enforcement agencies, announcements or
introductions of new products by our competitors, delays, failures or
problems in our biometric products, delays in the adoption of new industry
biometric standards, and competitive pressures resulting in lower software
product revenues. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time to
time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section
titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2006 and other reports and filings made with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Aware, BioSP, PIVSuite, Aware XM, NISTPack, FastCapture, AccuScan,
PreFace, StratiPHY, and Dr. DSL are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Aware, Inc. Any other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their
respective owners.
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http://www.aware.com/piv http://www.aware.com/BioSP
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CONTACT:
Danica Cheslofska of Aware, Inc.,
+1-781-687-4000, danica@aware.com
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