Moqi has officially releasing its new Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) at the Milipol Conference in Paris. According to the company, this new AFIS system, called FingerID, leverages the newest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
In conjunction with the national police department, Moqi has already built a huge fingerprint repository, having stored over 2 billion fingerprints. FingerID doesn’t work the same way as the current fingerprint identification process, which uses templates for fingerprint comparison. Instead, FingerID works by providing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) framework that centralizes all fingerprint identification requests, allowing for fingerprint identification in seconds, all with a single sign-on.
While the FingerID system was designed for law enforcement and immigration, Moqi says it can be used in correctional facilities, forensic science, immigration and more. Essentially, AI fingerprint technology can be powerful anywhere that biometrics is the best identification verification method. FingerID can be easily integrated as it works with existing fingerprint collection devices and cell phones.
FingerID has already been used to create one national identification system. Moqi credits FingerID for being able to identify 60,000 sets of latent fingerprints, which led to hundreds of previously unsolved murder cases being solved. At the time these homicides occurred, there wasn’t sufficiently advanced forensic technology to establish a fingerprint match.
While the current FingerID system uses a database of 2 million, that database is scalable to the tens of billions, which could make it a powerful police and forensics tool.