Enrolments into India's massive biometric registration scheme – Aadhaar – have crossed the one billion mark, and its use for citizen authentication is now expected to rapidly spread across services for government and private enterprises.This means that the need for a biometric modality that can authenticate people reliably is critical for the use of Aadhaar in the government's Janadhan Aadhaar Mobile (JAM) led initiatives.One supplier of iris software – Delta ID – has announced its ActiveIRIS product has now passed the necessary performance tests for use in integrated mobile devices for Aadhaar.The performance testing was held by STQC in collaboration with C-DAC and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), under the Ministry of Electronics and IT of the Government of India, during May 2016 in New Delhi.Delta ID's ActiveIRIS software was integrated in a Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris.”We want to congratulate Delta ID on passing the Performance Test for its iris software for integrated mobile devices for Aadhaar. The Performance Testing required a pass rate of better than 99 percent when tested with 5000 residents,” said Director General of STQC, Umesh Kumar Nandwani.”With the availability of iris integrated mobile devices we hope to make the use of Aadhaar even more convenient and reliable for our residents,” added Nandwani.”I believe we are at that the cusp of a major change in how biometrics, particularly, iris will play a role in enabling access to a variety of services we use in our daily lives,” said President and CEO of Delta ID, Dr. Salil Prabhakar.
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