BioLink Delivers Its Powerful Matchers for the E-Passport of Senegal

BioLink is engaged in the implementation of the E-Passport System in Senegal involving fingerprinting of the Senegalese crossing the borders. ICAO-compliant e-passports used as a travel document will bear a microchip in their covers with biometric identifiers of holders. The Republic of Senegal is another African country launching e-passports complying with ICAO stipulations for machine-readable travel documents protecting the users' privacy against identity theft. E-passports assist in streamlining immigration activities and keeping records of visitors to the country.

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system is expected to cover 3 Mio citizens of Senegal. It will operate in 1 main passport operation center in Dakar and 8 regional passport operation centers in the Republic of Senegal. The system will be spread worldwide with another 8 overseas passport operation centers in Senegalese embassies. The Dakar International Airport will be equipped with 4 Immigration Autogates with BioLink biometrics for safe and effortless flow of passengers.

BioLink is responsible for the biometric component of the system, namely for managing and matching the biometric credentials captured by a biometric scanner. For this project, BioLink supplied the biometric management server and 8 biometric matchers intended to do the fast fingerprint comparison within 24 hours. The biometric matching is performed based on BioLink’s proprietary fingerprint matching algorithms supporting the key international and industry standards, such as ISO/IEC, ANSI/NIST, ANSI INCITS and WSQ. IRIS Corporation Berhad, BioLink’s frequent partner in nationwide identification projects, is in charge of providing a fully integrated and highly secure solution for the enrollment, personalization and issuance of e-passport to the Senegalese as well as the appropriate support services within the period of 20 years.

Piotr Pertsov, Director of Business Development in BioLink, says: “We are involved in this large identification project thanks to lasting relationship with IRIS. However, BioLink has sufficient experience in cooperating with African governments, and we are quite confident we’ll give this project the best care and attention until the customer is completely satisfied.”

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