May 2015
| Business World
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Contact Distance Identity (ANDI) product
family name.
"The core technology is a standoff non-
contact− what we refer to as zero contact−
fingerprint technology that uses passive
optical sensors and, to avoid being too tech-
nical, normal white lighting," Centamore ex-
plained. "You need to have a pretty special-
ized environment in which you can capture
these fingerprints, so we've put together the
illumination, the camera, the lens, the tim-
ing and the positioning of the finger so that
you can capture a fingerprint from up to six
meters in our lab tests."
AOS' first product using the core technol-
ogy was the ANDI 200: a robotic biometric
enrolment device that captures face images,
fingerprints and voice samples with the abil-
ity to interact with users by giving them a se-
ries of instructions in order to collect "all the
enrollment information you would normally
get from interacting with a skilled human
operator."But while the ANDI 200 garnered
its fair share of interest on the market, the
company's current AIRprint incarnation,
ANDI On The Go, is generating even great-
er interest.
"At full walking speed− up to a meter and a
half per second− you can walk past the de-
vice, wave your hand through the capture
area and it captures all of your fingerprints
in an instant," Centamore explained."For
applications like airport exit from a coun-
try, land border crossings, theme parks,large
music festivals where they're trying to move
ten thousand people in and out quickly –any
area where you're trying to provide security
for large volumes of people – that's what
the ANDI On The Go is all about. It's really
been the technology that we've been focused
