Iris recognition payment specialists IrisGuard have unveiled a new outdoor imager which targets the need to enroll vulnerable refugees and internally displaced persons in tou.Called EyeHood, the iris and face imager has been designed for for outdoor enrollments and recognitions.In a statement, the firm said its specifically designed to meet the most difficult outdoor conditions, with a camera fully shielding the user from direct sunlight and other external lighting conditions.It noted that this is of particular importance in demanding financial payment applications for unbanked, non-banked and financially underprivileged communities such as vulnerable refugees and internally displaced person (IDP).”The EyeHood plays a preponderant role during the registration process, by faultlessly providing a unique identity record for each refugee / IDP person which in turn helps protect them and provide the needed access to financial services and food assistance which serves them with dignity and renders them more independent,” said IrisGuardThe EyeHood® hosts a newly engineered proprietary auto-focus lens together with a patented fast focus adjustment software capability to ensure rapid iris recognition in order to capture a user's in-focused iris image at extremely fast speeds, second to none in the industry. This is an essential component conducive to streamlining the capture process and to ensure that only flawless iris images are captured hence reducing the overall acquisition time which is of critical significance in holistic iris recognition applications. Unlike other similar-looking imagers on the market today, the automatic “fine focus” feature with its amazing mega-pixel sensor ensures unprecedented quality suitable for amassing databases of millions of people in rapid time without sacrificing iris image quality unlike inferior fixed-depth-of-field iris cameras on the market today.Imad Malhas, CEO & founder of IrisGuard, said the device will offer United Nations humanitarian agencies and international NGO customers a unique iris camera enabling operational staff to enroll and recognize millions of vulnerable beneficiaries they serve daily with perfect iris quality images for authentication services such as financial inclusion, remittances, cash withdrawals and food assistance in real time at remote locations throughout the world with ease and convenience meeting the highest industry standards in iris recognition obtainable today.”We specifically designed and engineered the EyeHood imager for crucial outdoor registration and recognition in-order to provide maximum accuracy, speed and operational efficiencies for our customers, with no requirement for a card, pin, password, phone or any other token that can be lost, forged or stolen” commented Malhas.
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