to all,
morpho update in mexico using idx touchprint. maybe we can get so appreciation.
gw
News Alert from BusinessWire via Quote.com
Topic: Identix Inc
Quote.com News Item #4597313
Headline: Morpho Boosts Law Enforcement Technology in Mexico City
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TACOMA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 1997--North American
Morpho Systems, Inc. (Morpho) of Tacoma, announced the successful
installation of its automated fingerprint identification system
(AFIS) for the Procuraduria General de Justicia Distrito Federal
(PGJDF) of Mexico.
It is Morpho's first law enforcement AFIS installation in Latin
America.
The PGJDF, which is the Federal district attorney's office,
replaced its nine-year-old Printrak system with the Morpho AFIS.
According to Dr. Pedro Estrada Gonzalez, General Director of Expert
Services for the PGJDF, the new system's technological advances allow
the PGJDF to be on the leading edge of national investigation.
"In five months, the Morpho system produced a positive
identification in 53 cases, which is far greater than the average
rate of identification using the old method," attests Dr. Gonzalez.
"Our fingerprint experts are enthusiastic about having such an
effective tool at hand to help with their important investigative
work."
Three Morpho FlexScan workstations were installed in March at
PGJDF headquarters in Mexico City. "The system was so well
received," says Morpho president and CEO Jean-Marc Suchier, "that in
September the PGJDF ordered twelve additional workstations for
installation throughout the city, including six workstations designed
for capturing fingerprint images without ink."
Sunnyvale, California-based Identix, Incorporated (AMEX:IDX)
supplied its FBI-certified TouchPrint 600(tm) live optical-scan
technology for integration with Morpho's fingerprint capture
workstations. Identix's live-scan technology does away with the
traditional, but messy and significantly less-accurate process of
inking and rolling fingerprints.
Live-scan workstations use digital cameras to scan a person's
fingertips and convert what the camera "sees" to digital
representations of the finger images. These digital representations
are stored, then transmitted to Mexico's Morpho AFIS for
nearly-instant identification.
Identix Chairman, President, and CEO Randall C. Fowler says that
the PGJDF project "represents one more example of our technology
meshing with Morpho's in a critical application where speed,
accuracy, operation ease, and dependability are paramount. Our
valued relationship with Morpho over the past few years has seen a
variety of such applications, ranging from law enforcement to public
assistance verification systems."
Morpho also developed a business relationship with Image
Technology Company of Mexico City. As a subcontractor, Image
Technology Company assists Morpho with user training and maintenance
support.
A high-technology imaging corporation, Morpho is a leading
provider of biometric technology and automated fingerprint
identification systems for state and local government agencies in
North America. Morpho's products are used in a variety of security
applications worldwide, including law enforcement, document security,
and national defense. Morpho is also a member of the team that is
developing an AFIS system for the FBI. The company currently employs
178 people throughout the United States. Morpho is a subsidiary of
SAGEM, a major French telecommunications, electronics, defense, and
security corporation headquartered in Paris. |
