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In the recent years, the biometric identification industry in China has witnessed an annual growth rate above 60%. In the year of 2012, the market size was more than 6 billion yuan. It is estimated that this figure will become more than 10 billion yuan in the year of 2015.

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1. Introduction to personal identification

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Personal identification is a solution for identity authentication through body characteristics including identity characteristics such as fingerprints, voices, faces, skelectons, retina, iris and DNA and behavior characteristics such as signing actions, walking gaits and keyboard pressing forces. It serves as an effective means for personal identity authentication because of its following features:

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2. Types of personal identification

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The identity characteristics for personal identification include hand shapes, fingerprints, face shapes, irises, retinas, pulses, auriculas and so on and the behavior characteristics for personal identification include signing actions, voices, keyboard pressing forces and so on. People have developed personal identification technologies including hand shape identification, fingerprint identification, face recognition, voice identification, iris identification, signature identification, etc.

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3. Analysis of the demand scale for personal identification chips

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Scale of the biometric identification market in China has been increasingly rapidly. In the next years, China will promote the standardization of biometric identification in fields such as information technologies, information security, financial transactions and social security, showing a huge industry potential. During 2002 to 2012, the biometric identification industry in China has witnessed an annual growth rate above 60%. In the year of 2012, the market size was more than 6 billion yuan. It is estimated that this figure will become more than 10 billion yuan in the year of 2015.

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In the year of 2013, the global fingerprint identification market reached a scale of about 3 billion dollars. At present, the fingerprint identification module of each iPhone5S is about 15 dollars. Assume that half of smart phones and tablet PCs will use fingerprint identification modules in the next three years. As a result, the fingerprint identification market will reach a scale of 13.1 billion dollars, increased by 330%.

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On January 1, 2013, the Ministry of Public Security of the People¡¯s republic of China started registration of fingerprint information for ID cards formally and planned to enable all urban and rural local police stations in China to accept fingerprint information based ID cards by late December in the same year, suggesting that construction of the hardware and software systems for fingerprint registration will be finished in the year of 2013 that will be earlier than expected by the market. It is estimated that the nationwide market scale of fingerprint information registration for ID cards will reach 0.5 billion yuan to 1 billion yuan during 2013 to 2014 and the related convenient services and social applications will have a market scale above 5 billion yuan in the next five years.

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Source: Analysis of the Market Demand for Personal Identification Chips: Fingerprint Identification will be Booming on http://www.cps.com.cn/

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4. Taking lead in using identification technologies in port service

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Entry-exit inspections mainly aim at comparing passengers with their identity documents. However, with improvement of make-up technologies, face lifting technologies and other related technologies, the comparison has become not so accurate. According to a report issued in September in the last year, there were multiple passengers look like Fan Bingbing in a single day at Gongbei Port. Obviously, conventional inspections with help of naked eyes tend to result in wrong judgments or even a security risk for the country. Personal identification with help of unique and reliable biometrics and related technologies is a long-run goal in entry-exit inspections. It will surely be more popular in future.

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Since 2004, we have used biometric identification technologies in the customs clearance of ports. ¡°Fast Vehicle Auto-clearance System¡± for automatic inbound and outbound vehicle inspection, self-service customs clearance systems for ports and one-stop electronic inspection and release system for vehicles have been used in ports in places such as Shenzhen and Zhuhai. After more than ten years of researches and exploration, other similar systems have been widely used in ports throughout the country and fingerprint identification technology, face recognition technology and other biometric identification technologies have become important means in the entry-exit inspections of our country. We are a pioneer in this field.

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In addition to fingerprint and face recognition technologies for passenger inspection and release, our biometric identification technologies cover the following products:

Protector for border inspection seals: smart fingerprint inspection seal counter

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It uses a high-performance fingerprint scanner module with a resolution of 500DPI, a comparison speed shorter than 0.1 s (1:1) or shorter than 0.5 s (1: N), a false rejection rate smaller than 0.1%, a false accept rate smaller than 0.0001% and storage capacity for 1,024 fingerprints. It can be used with a host computer to realize flexible control modes including one-passenger multiple-cabinet, two-passenger one-cabinet, multi-passenger one-cabinet, etc.

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¡¤Products realizing security and convenience: smart identity inspection counter, e-channel and ladderway monitoring system

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Our smart identity inspection counter realizes fingerprint login through a fingerprint module. A passenger can log in the system by pressing his fingerprint only, without the necessity to enter a user name and a password.

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We have lunched automated products based on the fingerprint identification technology, the face recognition technology, the iris identification technology and other biometric identification technologies, such as smart identity document inspection counter, restricted area control system, passage monitoring system, fingerprint and face information acquisition system, multifunctional automated biometrics acquisition system and mobile inspection and release system, speeding up services, reducing the press of inspectors, avoiding blind spots in monitoring and making passenger inspections much more accurate.

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With the increasingly larger demand for the entry-exit service of our country, biometric identification technologies will surely be used in more port systems. We will make more efforts in researches to use biometric identification technologies in the informatization development of ports better to contribute to port security.

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