IB360
Building biometric systems, simplified.
IB360 is a flexible software toolkit that simplifies biometric system integration. Designed for the integrator community, it provides a modular framework to embed IB biometric hardware, software, and algorithms into new or existing applications. Simple APIs streamline user enrollment, identity verification, and database identification across local and distributed deployments, from single devices to synchronized networks.
Built for Hardware, Software, and Systems Integrators
A robust SDK with minimal code for core functions, support across platforms, and easy extension to your hardware or your application layer.
Hardware Integrators
- Showcase your hardware's full potential with a modular SDK surface
- Modular licensing model that supports recurring revenue
- Tight integration with the IB scanner family
- Reduce reliance on external suppliers for capture and matching
Software Integrators
- Integrate biometrics without standing up a large engineering team
- Robust APIs for hardware and matching algorithms
- Secure data management built into the framework
- Designed for decentralized setups and quick deployments in emerging markets
Systems Integrators
- One-stop toolkit for end-to-end identity solutions
- Build prototypes fast, then scale with sync and matching
- Covers defense, healthcare, elections, financial services, and more
- Low-risk path from custom design to deployed system
Inside the Toolkit
Off-the-shelf components that handle the parts of a biometric system you don't need to reinvent.
Simplified APIs
Create the core of a biometric system with a few lines of code. Enrollment, verification, and identification calls are exposed through a single API surface, so integrators don't have to wire together the underlying capture, matching, and storage layers themselves.
Configurable GUIs
Adapt the user-facing flows in your application to the way your customers actually work. The toolkit provides configurable UI components for the standard biometric encounters, so the look, sequence, and validation rules can match the deployment.
Data Storage & Sync
Govern your records with built-in data storage and synchronization. Run a single device, a small team, or a synchronized network of devices and edge nodes that share a consistent biometric record set.
Privacy & Security
Built-in features for security, transparency, and privacy, compliant with self-sovereign identity standards. The framework treats privacy as a starting point, not a downstream concern.
Modular Add-Ons
Extend the system with modular components for new capture types, new matching modalities, or new domain-specific workflows. Add capabilities without reinventing the wheel each time the use case changes.
Logging & Health Services
Preserve the reliability of a deployed system with logging, health checks, and observability built into the framework. Useful for the long tail of operating a biometric program, not just building one.
From Prototype to Production
IB360 collapses the timeline most integrators expect. Customers can be running on a real prototype in days, not quarters.
Prototype in 2 days
Wire IB capture, matching, and storage primitives into a working prototype using the simplified APIs. Demonstrate the core encounter end-to-end before committing to the full integration.
Proof of concept in 2 weeks
Configure the flows, add the domain-specific logic, and stand up a deployment that mirrors the production architecture. Validate with real users in the real environment.
Production in 2 months
Move from validated proof to deployed system. The modular framework, logging, and sync layer carry forward into the live deployment without a rebuild.
The Four Core Modules of IB360
IB360 is built from four modules that work together as one system, from capture at the edge to a resolved, trusted record set. [TBC: module descriptions drafted from existing IB360 copy; confirm details with IB.]
Client
The capture-side module. Runs on the enrollment or verification device, driving IB scanners and guiding operators through capture. [TBC]
Sync
Data storage and synchronization. Run a single device, a small team, or a synchronized network of devices and edge nodes that share a consistent biometric record set.
Matcher
The matching engine. Local and distributed 1:1 verification and 1:N identification across the record set, using the matching technology of your choice. [TBC]
Adjudication
Review and resolution. Tools for adjudicating potential matches and duplicate records before they enter the system of record. [TBC]
Deployment & Compatibility
Deployment Architecture
- Local, single-device deployments
- Synchronized network deployments across multiple sites
- Centralized and decentralized configurations supported
- Edge device support for on-device record storage and matching
- Scales from small to mid-scale programs
Hardware Compatibility
- Designed to integrate the full IB fingerprint scanner family
- Built on the unified IB SDK that drives every IB scanner
- Extensible to additional biometric modalities and matching algorithms
Licensing
- Modular licensing model designed for integrators
- Supports recurring-revenue commercial structures
- Contact IB sales for licensing and partnership terms
Document Downloads
IB360 Overview
IB360 at a glance: a software toolkit that simplifies biometric system integration. Modular framework, simple APIs, and a faster path from prototype to production.
IB360: Build Your Own Biometrics (Hardware)
The hardware integrator path through IB360. How to compose IB scanners with the IB360 framework into a deployable biometric product.
IB360: Build Your Own Biometrics (Software)
The software integrator path through IB360. APIs, the modular framework, and the fastest route from prototype to production.
IB360 for Hardware Integrators
Why hardware integrators reach for IB360: licensing model, modular SDK surface, and the path from sensor to revenue.
IB360 for Software Integrators
Why software integrators reach for IB360: a single SDK across capture, matching, and database operations, with simple APIs and a fast path to MVP.
IB360 for Systems Integrators
How systems integrators use IB360 to assemble end-to-end identity solutions across defense, healthcare, elections, and financial services.
IB360 Spotlight: Werner Cilliers, WRB Global
An interview with Werner Cilliers of WRB Global on deploying IB360 in the field, including integration with existing non-biometric systems.
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