The project supposed the development of the appearance of ergonomics and design of a mobile biometric terminal for identification of a person, verification of new generation passports and visas, and also the creation of electronic tenprints (fingerprint) with prints of all ten fingers (and their transfer to a single database).

 

This device is designed for the police, border guards and other law enforcement agencies. It combines several tools to obtain information about the person, including the documents submitted for review. First and foremost it is an optical fingerprint scanner for fingerprints (see video snippet), and a flash digital camera to take pictures of the face of the person. In addition, scanners have been incorporated into the device for the MRZ-line and contactless cards, which record biometric information in the documents of new generation identity verification; there is also a possibility to manually enter passport information.  According to the project the unit has to constantly communicate with a single base of fingerprint and passport data, this is why the device envisages wireless modules of communication.

 

The main difficulty of the project was the extremely tight deadline set by the customer. We, as industrial designer, for a short period of time, not only had to offer an interesting and a more comfortable than the Western counterparts (for example, EasyRead) device, but also literally work out every detail in enhancing its durability (to prevent its vandalizing). After all the conditions of the exploitation of the mobile terminal were assumed to be highly complex: before mass production unit must pass a “test-run” in the most criminally active regions of the country.