A simple and efficient one-touch biometrics enrollment process permits visitors to very quickly and conveniently enter the park each day. They do this without the usual hassles, delays or performance problems experienced with conventional biometrics technologies in similar applications. With earlier attempts to deploy biometrics, this theme park experienced performance problems and challenges due to changing weather conditions, demographics, professional occupations, age and skin conditions, just to name a few.  With multispectral imaging, these common problems were completely eliminated and the customer was successful in meeting their business goals.

Multispectral imaging has the unique ability to support every user, every time, making it possible to reliably create usable biometric templates for all theme park visitors regardless of age or operating conditions. Visitors from age 7 to 97 from all corners of the globe, all cultures and backgrounds, are efficiently and reliably admitted each and every day.

From the customer requirement perspective, the goal of this program was to conveniently and uniquely link a secure personal biometric marker to each individual ticket. It was also very important that the process and technology adopted be quick, reliable and convenient. It was imperative that the system work effectively for every user, every time.

Earlier attempts to deploy biometrics were unsuccessful as the environment was generally too hostile or too difficult for most other biometric devices. Lumidigm’s multispectral imaging provided a solution that was both fast and self-sufficient. Visitors are able to enroll and re-enter the park without any training, staff supervision or risk to personal privacy.

Tens of thousands of visitors pass thru these turnstiles each day. Biometric performance in large-scale deployments is the true test of the technology. Lumidigm’s technology performance has been unmatched and visitors enjoy the convenience and hassle-free entry into the park. Meanwhile, multispectral imaging also meets the critical need of the Theme Park Client which is to efficiently serve their customers while minimizing revenue losses due to ticket fraud and abuse.

The operational conditions and heavy duty cycles required by many civil ID and e-border applications demand a sensor that is robust, durable, and tamper resistant. The devices and software selected must be capable of successfully collecting a usable image under a very wide range of environmental and human conditions.

What continues to make multispectral imaging technology unique is its ability to create consistent, high-quality, highly usable images. Having the ability to do so is essential to supporting reliable and accurate user authentication or identification.

If data is missing or otherwise obscured by dry skin, wet surfaces or other less-than-ideal conditions, the system used to extract the unique features to perform statistical matching is at a disadvantage. Multispectral imaging technology routinely returns higher NIST image quality scores than other scanners under the same operating conditions. Where many conventional devices are unable to even produce a visible image, Lumidigm’s technology is capable of producing not just a viable image but a high-quality image.

The key to understanding this performance is in understanding skin physiology. The structure of the ridges and valleys that make up the actual fingerprint is built upon a substructure of blood vessels that correspond exactly to the information that can be extracted from the surface level of the skin.

Under ideal skin and environmental conditions, most conventional technologies can produce a usable image. However, conditions in the real world are rarely ideal. Dry or aged skin, rain, daily grime, and a broad range of other real-world factors can severely limit the amount of data that can be extracted from the surface image alone.

Because Lumidigm’s technology is not limited to the surface information but rather can see and extract information from beneath the skin, the data available for feature extraction and matching is of higher quality. The net result is better enrollment, better matching and better results.

Most hospitals’ current technology investments, such as enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) and clinical information system (CIS), allow easy integration with Lumidigm fingerprint sensors. Identity and access management can be simplified with the touch of a finger.

Dependable, high-performing Lumidigm technology presents limitless opportunities to streamline hospital performance and deliver end-user satisfaction. User authorization is required to access medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, patient information and the parking lot! Coordinated logical and physical access saves time and money when the solution can be made to work reliably for every user, every time. With Lumidigm, it can.