Why IB
Faster. Better. Smarter.
Fingerprints are not a sideline at IB. They are the entire business: twenty years of fingerprint-first engineering, from sensor film to SDK, behind every device we ship. The result is 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 into every IB FBI-certified product and local or national identity systems
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 SDK for all IB scanners, compatible with IB software offerings
- 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
Flawless Print Capture via Patented LES 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 rely on prism-based optical sensors or conventional thin-film transistor (TFT) sensors. IB's patented LES film takes a different path. Some IB scanners are built on TFT substrates, and the LES layer is precisely what removes conventional TFT's weak points.
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
Thin-film transistor (TFT) sensors
- Silicon/glass transistor-based sensors
- Prone to pixel burnout and dead zones with heavy use
- Micro-scratches permanently degrade image quality
- Sensitive to ESD, risking circuit damage
- Higher cost per square inch
- Fragile glass layers can shatter or delaminate
- Degrade under prolonged UV and sun exposure
- Susceptible to ghosting during high-speed scanning
Light-emitting sensor (LES) film
- 90 to 95 percent smaller and lighter than traditional optical scanners
- Works in direct sunlight on dry or moist fingers, with no degradation under prolonged UV exposure
- Readings impervious to dirt, oils, and moisture on the film or fingers
- No pixel burnout, dead zones, or ghosting, even under heavy high-speed use
- Flexible, abrasion-resistant film: no fragile glass layers to scratch, shatter, or delaminate, and resistant to ESD damage
- No platen cleaning required between uses, impervious to latent prints
- No membranes to replace, no consumables to manage
- Extremely low power consumption, suited to mobile and battery-powered deployments
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
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 and palm print 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 PPI 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.
Attack Protection
Attacks on biometric fingerprint security range from counterfeit fingerprints and artificial fingers to injected data and AI-generated fakes. IB's protection is layered: the sensor rejects spoofs at the hardware level, a deep-learning algorithm scores liveness in software, and encryption and signing protect the data itself.
Presentation Attack Detection (PAD)
Physical spoofs and AI-generated deepfakes both fail at the sensor. Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) is the industry term for defeating fake fingerprints presented to a scanner, from silicone, gelatin, wood glue, and printed spoofs to GAN-generated deepfakes. IB defeats them at the hardware level: the LES sensor only forms an image when live fingertip ridges complete a low-level electrical circuit, responding to the unique electrical and moisture properties of living skin. Non-conductive spoofs and synthetic materials never trigger the sensor, so no image is ever captured. The most common spoof constructions are nullified before any software runs.
Software Liveness
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 technique completes in milliseconds, with latency imperceptible to the end user.
Injection Attack Protection
Fake or injected data is rejected; only authentic captures are processed. In a digital injection attack, hackers bypass the scanner and insert fake fingerprint data directly into the system. IB prevents this with hardware-level encryption and cryptographic signing: fingerprint data is encrypted (AES-256) instantly upon capture, before it leaves the sensor; encrypted data cannot be intercepted or altered in transit; and the host only accepts data signed with the sensor's unique, untampered cryptographic signature.
Antimicrobial Protection
A fingerprint scanner is a shared surface, touched by hundreds of hands a day in clinics, border posts, and polling stations. IB builds antimicrobial protection into the sensor itself, an advantage few competitors can claim.
Antibacterial
[PENDING DAVE'S NOTES — how IB's antibacterial protection works and what it covers. Cite the University of Missouri Phase II antimicrobial testing once confirmed.]
Antiviral
[PENDING DAVE'S NOTES — how IB's antiviral protection works and what it covers. Note from the call: antibacterial and antiviral protection 'happen different ways.']
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.
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