Why IB
Faster. Better. Smarter.
Best-in-class performance in speed, size, weight, ease of use, and durability.
Faster
- Rapid dry finger capture
- No need to clean latent prints in high-volume situations
- Easy integration via a single SDK for every IB FBI-certified product
Better
- Unaffected by extreme temperatures, direct sunlight, or bright artificial lights
- Compact, lightweight, and rugged
- Rejects common spoofing attacks
- Emits no bright lights during scans
- Meets or exceeds US military durability specifications
Smarter
- One unified SDK across every IB scanner, so integrators learn one toolkit
- Responsive support team that answers in hours, not weeks
- Twenty years of FBI certifications and live field deployments
- Lower total cost over time: low power draw, no consumables, less maintenance
A Support Team That Picks Up the Phone
The IB support team is small enough that you reach the people who actually built the product, and fast enough that integrators and field teams hear back in hours rather than weeks. That responsiveness is unusual in this industry, and it's one of the reasons customers stay with IB across deployment cycles.
When something breaks in the field, when a new integration question lands at 2am in a different time zone, when a deployment hits a configuration edge case nobody documented: the support team is the line that gets answered.
Patented Light-Emitting Sensor Technology
Integrated Biometrics develops and manufactures FBI-certified fingerprint biometric scanners that use durable, patented light emitting sensor (LES) film. This unique, patented technology enables our world-class fingerprint solutions to work in direct sunlight on dry or moist fingers and resist abrasion.
LES technology is the only biometric technology that can meet the stringent image performance requirements of the FBI in a 'thin' form factor, less than 1 mm thick. Whether integrating with smartphones, tablets, or other mobile solutions, LES fuels the smallest and lightest forensic-quality roll scanners available in the market today, 90 to 95 percent smaller and lighter than traditional optical scanners.
Built Differently From the Ground Up
Most fingerprint scanners use prism-based optical sensors that haven't fundamentally changed in decades. IB's patented LES film replaces the prism entirely, which changes what the scanner can do in the field.
Prism-based sensors
- Larger and heavier form factors
- Image quality degrades in direct or bright artificial light
- Vulnerable to grease, oil, water, and dust on the platen
- Requires regular platen cleaning between captures
- Susceptible to latent print contamination
- Silicone membranes wear and require replacement
- Fogging and halo effects in humid or temperature-variable conditions
- Higher power draw, glass components can break under field conditions
Light-emitting sensor film
- 90 to 95 percent smaller and lighter than traditional optical scanners
- Works in direct sunlight on dry or moist fingers
- Readings impervious to dirt, oils, and moisture on the film or fingers
- No platen cleaning required between uses
- Impervious to latent prints
- No membranes to replace, no consumables to manage
- Solid state with no breakable glass components
- Extremely low power consumption, suited to mobile and battery-powered deployments
Presentation Attack Detection
Methods commonly used to counter biometric fingerprint security include counterfeit fingerprints, artificial fingers, and severed digits. IB's approach to PAD is tiered: the sensor rejects the most common attacks at the hardware layer, and a deep-learning algorithm catches the rest in software.
Tier 1: Hardware
LES film instantly rejects any non-conductive presentation attack. The LES sensor only generates an image when fingertip ridges complete a low-level electric circuit. Non-conductive spoofs fail at the sensor itself, nullifying the threat of the most common spoof constructions.
Tier 2: Software
A deep-learning AI algorithm scores liveness in milliseconds. A unique deep-learning algorithm trained to detect anomalies typical of spoof attacks discerns a liveness score with a high degree of accuracy. The PAD technique is completed in milliseconds, with latency imperceptible to the end user.
Powerful SDK Capabilities
A set of robust tools that empower solution providers to deploy LES biometric acquisition applications. One integration surface, every IB scanner and software product.
Unified Integration
The IBScan Ultimate SDK is the single integration surface for every IB LES fingerprint scanner. Build once, deploy across the entire IB product line.
Capture API
Walks the user through capturing the requested biometrics, configurable per use case: selfie or administered, capture review on or off, quality validation constraints, EBTS-embedded or raw image return.
Image Enhancement Algorithms
Remapping, Region of Interest, Quality analysis, Segmentation, and Normalization to 500 DPI ensure interoperability with market-standard biometric engines, even for the hardest capture cases.
Matching API
Send captured images to the matching technology of your choice. Build a custom multi-modal matching pipeline or run remote 1:1 verification from a centralized biometric database.
Cross-Platform Support
IBScan Ultimate ships for Windows, Linux (kernel 4.0+), and Android (target SDK 35, minimum SDK 21). API documentation, demonstration applications, and source code included for every platform.
End-to-End Encryption
256-bit AES keys and RSA algorithms protect biometric data at the point of acquisition, across field wiring, and into the host application. Onboard security chipsets and private/public key structures across the line.
Standards & Certification
Every IB device is FBI certified to the standard its form factor supports. PIV for verification, Appendix F for highest-quality enrollment, Appendix P for palm capture.
FBI PIV
- Personal Identity Verification standard (PIV-071006)
- Quality level for one-to-one fingerprint verification
- Carried by IB FAP 30 (Columbo, Danno) and FAP 45 (Sherlock, Watson) devices
FBI Appendix F
- The Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification's highest quality level
- Capable of 1:1 matching and 1:N identification against large databases
- Carried by IB FAP 45 (Sherlock, Watson), FAP 50 (Five-0), and FAP 60 (Kojak, Mannix) devices
FBI Appendix P
- FBI palm-scanner standard
- Built for full upper palm, lower palm, writer's palm, and rolled-print capture
- Carried by Mannix, IB's bezel-less FAP 60 mobile palm scanner
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