AOptix Technologies and Aware, Inc. Provide DoD ABIS Compliance for InSight 2 Meter Iris Recognition System

Standards-based Solution Ready for Deployment within DoD Biometrics Infrastructure

Defense News: CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOptix Technologies, Inc., (AOptix) (www.aoptix.com), a leading edge developer of advanced iris biometrics products and long-distance wireless optical communications solutions, today announced that AOptix and Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWRE - News) have completed integration of AOptix’s innovative InSight™ 2 meter iris recognition system with Aware’s URC™ and BioSP™ software products. Deployment ready, this solution provides compatibility of the InSight system and the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Automated Biometric Identity System (ABIS) using the EBTS 1.2 standard.

Screen capture from Aware's Universal Registration Client interface. Iris image captured at 2 meters distance with the AOptix InSight iris recognition system. (Graphic: Business Wire). View Multimedia Gallery

Working at a nominal distance of 1.5 to 2.5 meters, the InSight system fully automates iris biometric image acquisition and provides consistent verification of a subject’s identity in just 2 seconds. The system employs highly innovative adaptive optics technology that automatically finds the subject’s face and eyes within a very large capture volume of over .75 cubic meters, making subject participation effortless. Complementing this focus on usability, the InSight system can be easily deployed in an enterprise environment due to its extensive use of open standards for biometrics and web services communications.

Aware’s Universal Registration Client (URC) application provides an intuitive, customizable user interface for automated enrollment of iris, face, and fingerprint images as well as biographic information. Integration with Aware’s Biometric Services Platform (BioSP), a service-oriented biometric application server, enables standardized communications and EBTS 1.2 compliant biometric record formatting. This allows DoD users to take full advantage of the advanced capabilities of the AOptix InSight in a variety of application settings with full assurance of compatibility with DoD’s ABIS database.

“Aware is pleased to contribute off-the-shelf products to this innovative solution from AOptix,” said Rob Mungovan, Vice President of the Advanced Products Group at Aware. “It leverages many years of experience supplying standards-based biometrics software to the DoD.”

AOptix foresees strong growth in biometrics solutions employed by the DoD, which is one of the largest users of biometrics products and technologies in the world. The integration of the InSight system with Aware’s software is currently undergoing final qualification testing by the DoD Biometrics Task Force.

“Gaining full compatibility with the DoD ABIS standard was essential to serving this very important customer across a full variety of applications,” said Kevin Keipper, Director of Government Sales at AOptix. “Aware’s software products provided us this essential compatibility with minimal effort on our part.”

A demonstration can be seen at the Identity Protection and Management Exposition at the Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis, MN, from April 12^th to 15^th, 2010.

About AOptix Technologies

AOptix Technologies is a privately funded company founded in 2000. With core technology expertise in the application of advanced adaptive optics, it develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for both government and commercial markets. For additional information, please see www.aoptix.com.

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AOptix Technologies InSight 2 Meter Iris Recognition System Selected for Microsoft's Global Security Operations Center

New Partnership Adopts Effortless Technology Solution for Secure Area Access Control

Defense News: CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOptix Technologies, Inc., (AOptix) (www.aoptix.com), a leading developer of advanced iris biometrics products and long-distance wireless optical communications solutions, today announced a strategic partnership for iris biometric security with the Microsoft Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) in Redmond, Washington. Integration of the AOptix InSight™ iris recognition system brings state-of-the art iris identification to Microsoft, their customers and partners.

Working at a nominal distance of 2 meters, the InSight system fully automates biometric image acquisition and provides consistent verification of a subject’s identity in just 2 seconds. The system employs innovative adaptive optics technology that automatically finds the subject’s face and eyes within a very large capture volume, making subject participation effortless. This increased recognition space allows for varying personnel needs such as multiple heights ranging from ADA wheelchairs to an excess of seven feet.

AOptix InSight 2 meter iris recognition system (Photo: Business Wire). View Multimedia Gallery

“To meet 21^st Century security threats, we must forge strategic long-term partnerships with industry leaders such as AOptix,” said Brian Tuskan, senior director of operations, technology, investigations at Microsoft Global Security. ”AOptix, a key Microsoft partner, is helping set a new standard for advanced iris biometrics with products such as the InSight device, which will bring enhanced security to our Global Security Operations Center in Redmond, Washington.”

“Our innovative technology approach compliments Microsoft’s commitment to offer a suite of leading edge security solutions,” said Dean Senner, chairman, president and CEO of AOptix Technologies. “We are delighted to be in partnership with Microsoft to bring comprehensive iris recognition to the unique and powerful security capabilities that Microsoft has put together.”

AOptix foresees strong growth in biometrics enabled access control solutions in the near future. Data centers and security operations are two notable high risk facilities types addressable by this partnership.

About the company

AOptix Technologies is a privately funded company founded in 2000. With core technology expertise in the application of advanced adaptive optics, they develop free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for both government and commercial markets. For additional information, please see www.aoptix.com.

About the Microsoft Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) Technology Solution

Microsoft maintains three world-class, 24/7 operations centers around the globe to monitor, communicate and coordinate responses for more than 700 Microsoft sites worldwide. The centers, located in the US, the UK and India, highly leverage “out-of-the-box” solutions such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, InfoPath, Communicator and Bing Maps. These work in conjunction with Microsoft Certified Partner solutions to reduce costs and improve operational effectiveness around the world. The GSOC technology solution set is currently available for global deployment.

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AOptix Technologies Completes Air Force Flight Test Program of Breakthrough Laser Communications System

Ground Observers Watch Live Uncompressed HD Video Feeds From Airplane Cameras at Over 100 Kilometers Distance
AOptix Technologies, Inc. ~ Tuesday December 15, 2009
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOptix Technologies, Inc. (AOptix) (www.aoptix.com), a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, disclosed today the completion of a two-phase flight test program for the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) located in Rome, New York, with funding provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington, Va. The flight tests were conducted as part of the Enhanced Air-to-Ground Lasercom System (EAGLS) Program, and demonstrated AOptix’s unique capabilities in Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT) along with ultra-high bandwidth real-time communications between their aircraft-mounted R3.1 Lasercom terminal and LCT-5 fixed-ground Lasercom terminal.

Business Wire - Still from un-compressed HD video feed recorded over long distance lasercom link to the ground. (Photo: Business Wire). Flying at an altitude of approximately 12,000ft above ground level (AGL), and with a slant distance of more than 100 kilometers, AOptix successfully demonstrated a low-power, eye-safe, ultra-high bandwidth air-to-ground Free Space Optical (FSO) link. Covering an effective ground area of more than 31,000 square kilometers, the single bi-directional 2.5 Gbps multi-channel data link transmitted live simultaneous uncompressed high-definition (HD) video from two different airplane cameras and gigabit Ethernet. AOptix also demonstrated advanced error correction capabilities in Automatic Clock Recovery (ACR) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) techniques developed specifically for an ultra-high bandwidth FSO link.
“Our defense lasercom products deliver critically needed optical bandwidth for the war fighter,” says Dean Senner, President and CEO of AOptix Technologies. “In- theater operations requiring real-time dissemination of persistent Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) information are no longer limited by the data rate constraints of today’s radio frequency (RF) networks.”
The AOptix wireless bi-directional optical terminals utilize a unique patented, single aperture, adaptive optics method of beam control to compensate for real-time atmospheric turbulence while maintaining lock between two terminals. Video, voice and data is transmitted through the air over a single invisible, low power, eye-safe, FSO laser link.
About the company
AOptix Technologies is a privately funded company founded in 2000. With core technology expertise in the application of advanced adaptive optics, they develop free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for both government and commercial markets. For additional information, please see www.aoptix.com.
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