Visit us at booth #1262 on the HIMSS exhibit floor. Lumidigm products address healthcare IT customers’ needs for convenient, secure, and reliable fingerprint authentication that accommodates all environmental and demographic variables found in healthcare settings, including dry fingers, lotion, and even gloved hands.

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ALBUQUERQUE, NM — February 2, 2012 — Lumidigm Inc., the multi-imaging biometric identity management company, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Lumidigm Board member Mark Shermetaro as CEO. Lumidigm Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Bob Harbour will stay on as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective February 1.

“We are fortunate to be able to bring someone with Mark Shermetaro’s market-focused business development skills and experience to Lumidigm during this period of rapid revenue growth and ambitious product development,” said Harbour. “After three successive years of sustained growth and record revenues, the stage is set to accelerate the maturation of this company with someone with Mark’s skills and experience at the helm.”

Shermetaro said, “As a Board member I have been impressed by Lumidigm’s development into a profitable enterprise with industry-leading products and a rich portfolio of intellectual property. I am excited to join the Lumidigm executive team during this dynamic time in the company’s development and to continue my close working relationship with Bob and the rest of the Board and Investor Group.”

Shermetaro comes to Lumidigm from his position as Vice President of Business Development at Methode Electronics, where he was responsible for leading corporate M&A activity. Shermetaro served on the Lumidigm Board of Directors for two years.

The new smaller i-Evo Micro™ boasts many original i-Evo Ultimate™ reader features including multispectral imaging from Lumidigm, seamless integration and an 8,000 unique fingerprint capacity. Having successfully launched the original i-Evo Ultimate reader just two years ago, i-Evo has now successfully implemented the Lumidigm Mercury™ product to produce a lower cost biometric solution, based on responses from installers of the original reader. From this feedback, the idea of an indoors-only fingerprint reader was created which provides another choice for installers pursuing projects requiring a cost-effective, yet reliable and practical, security solution similar to the Ultimate product.

Micro also retains functionality with creams and powders on the skin as well as with the user wearing some types of latex gloves. Multiple mounting options provide the customer with choices on how to display their security system. Seamless integration into existing card, fob and proximity systems results in minimal disruption during the installation process.

Managing Director of i-Evo Shaun Oakes comments that, “Our new fingerprint reader for indoor environments maintains quality and reliability that many access control products lack. Having provisionally launched Micro to our existing customers, we received quotes for projects including cash offices, server rooms, office blocks and even people’s homes. This shows that, even though Micro is half the size, it is still as feature rich as the Ultimate reader and clearly has a market of its own.”

Simon Farmer from ACC Security Solutions has had a demonstration of the Micro reader and stated that, “It’s small, light and attractive, yet has many of the same features as the Ultimate. I will be recommending Micro to my clients as a dependable and reliable security solution.”

i-Evo Micro is now available to quote for projects. For pricing and technical information, contact the i-Evo sales and technical team at +44 (0)845 643 6632.

About i-Evo™

Leveraging over a decade of biometric experience, i-Evo develops biometric solutions for the access control market. Their background has driven them to consider all aspects of biometric installation in the design of their products, from the specification process and installation all the way through to the end user experience. Both products, Ultimate and Micro, deliver a minimalist, reliable and fit-for-purpose solution that allows seamless integration and works alongside currently installed systems using card/fob/PINs, as opposed to looking to replace whole systems. i-Evo ensures that the best sensor is used and all other components are of the highest quality possible, including a world leading algorithm. Coupled with its low cost, the i-Evo solutions take biometrics into new markets that have previously withdrawn or have not been suitable due to the low quality of traditional products. Located in the United Kingdom, both readers are currently available direct to trade customers in the UK and globally.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — January 4, 2012 — Lumidigm today announced that Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited, a leading global provider of AFIS and identity management solutions, is providing a complete criminal identity solution, including iris and fingerprint biometrics and a database upgrade, to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) office in Bangladesh. Tiger IT sought out Lumidigm’s reliable Venus fingerprint sensors for the project in order to provide the RAB with the best tools available for tracking and investigating criminal activities.

“Lumidigm has an advantage, in that their multispectral imaging technology collects unique fingerprint characteristics from both the surface and subsurface of the skin,” explains Rifat Abedin, Tiger IT Vice President of Business Development. “The additional fingerprint characteristics that Lumidigm sensors capture allow for improved accuracy in identification and verification, even with an uncooperative suspect.”

Tiger IT began work on the project in June and has successfully migrated the original RAB database into the new files. Training was provided by Tiger IT and concluded in October. Tiger IT provided resources in areas such as data migration from the existing system to the new system, de-duplication of records, enrollment application for capturing demographic and biometric data, the AFIS and iris matching system, database system and installation of all software and hardware.

“This was an exciting criminal tracking project for Lumidigm,” says Sujan T.V. Parthasaradhi, Lumidigm’s director of biometric applications. “We know that Lumidigm technology works exceptionally well in civil ID and secure border control applications, and together with top AFIS provider Tiger IT, we got a chance to bring it to Bangladesh.”

About Tiger IT

Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is a full-service developer of customized identity management solutions for government agencies, corporate enterprises, healthcare agencies, service providers and universities. Its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), certified by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is ranked among the top in the world. Tiger IT won the National ID and Voter Registration project for the Bangladesh election in 2008 and the subsequent tenders of the Bangladesh Election Commission (BEC)/UNDP for the central system and AFIS. Current projects include the Nepal MRP project and the High Security Driving License project of Bangladesh. For more information, visit www.tigeritbd.com.

Lumidigm speaker

Presentation Topic: Achieving High Biometric Performance in Homeland Security Applications

Conference Dates: December 8-10, 2011

Location: New Delhi, India

Conference website: www.homelandsecurityindia.in

OSRAM LED allows for uniform, efficient illumination in compact package

OSRAM / Lumidigm

Lumidigm has selected the Pointled from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors as the illumination source in the company’s Mercury and Mariner Fingerprint Sensors (Lumidigm M-Series). Lumidigm has long been at the forefront of the fingerprint sensor market with its proprietary multispectral imaging technology. The recent adoption of the compact, bright and efficient OSRAM Pointled has enabled Lumidigm to reduce the size and cost of its sensors and expand the reach of fingerprint authentication into new applications.

Lumidigm is an innovator in fingerprint biometrics, providing state-of-the-art fingerprint scanning with special emphasis on high performance in real world conditions. Lumidigm’s patented multispectral fingerprint technology closes a 20% performance gap often seen with conventional technologies because it illuminates both surface and subsurface fingerprint features, ultimately collecting more biometric information from the finger than conventional sensors can.

“We chose the Pointled product from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors for our Mercury and Mariner product lines because of the unique combination of small package size, symmetric radiation pattern, long lifetime and the ability to operate in high ambient temperatures,” said Steve Corcoran, Lumidigm’s Chief Engineer. “These attributes made it possible for us to design a compact illumination system that produces a highly uniform and efficient lighting profile at the fingerprint reader platen. Thanks to the excellent output of the OSRAM Pointled, Lumidigm is able to leverage our multispectral technology in a compact fingerprint sensor series.”

The OSRAM Pointled is a perfect combination of advanced package and chip technologies. It is the smallest LED with an integrated reflector and is suitable for both surface mount technology (SMT) and zero-height mounting. Its compact dimensions – 2 mm diameter x 0.775 mm high – allow this mini light source to be sunk completely in the printed circuit board, making it ideal for applications such as the Lumidigm M-Series fingerprint sensors where space is at a premium. The typical brightness of the white mini LED is currently 800 mcd at a beam angle of 120°, perfectly suitable for this unique imaging application.

All Lumidigm fingerprint scanners are available worldwide. For more information on Lumidigm, visit www.lumidigm.com. For more on LED technology from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, visit www.osram-os.com.

About OSRAM Opto Semiconductors

OSRAM AG (Munich, Germany) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens AG and one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world. Its subsidiary, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH in Regensburg (Germany), offers its customers solutions based on semiconductor technology for lighting, sensor and visualization applications. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has production sites in Regensburg (Germany) and Penang (Malaysia). Its headquarters for North America is in Sunnyvale (USA), and for Asia in Hong Kong. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors also has sales offices throughout the world.

But one of the most interesting companies profiled [by Gartner] is biometric firm Lumidigm, based in Albuquerque, N.M. The company made Gartner’s 2004 Cool Vendors in Security and Privacy list with an authentication tool that used skin spectroscopy to identify users, and analysts in 2011 checked back to see where the company is now. It turns out that, at the request of a U.S. government agency, Lumidigm repurposed its technology to develop a new kind of fingerprint sensor.

One client told Gartner Lumidigm’s technology can capture fingerprint images through medical gloves.

Click here to read the full article at Nextgov.

Lumidigm’s Bill Spence penned an article for Security Dealer & Integrator, published Nov 4, 2011. Called “Hospitals Can Finally Put a Finger on Biometrics”, the article demonstrates why fingerprint identity management in hospitals is finally a viable option. Spence writes:

[B]iometrics is only viable if the technology and solution can be made to work reliably for every user, every time. Today, the cutting-edge biometric technology multispectral fingerprint, which has the unique ability to “see” beneath the surface layer of skin, is having a dramatic impact on user performance and real-world experience in the healthcare industry…. It’s a solution that is now showing up in healthcare facilities worldwide.

Click here to read the full article at Security Dealer & Integrator.

Location: Milan, Italy

Lumidigm Speaker: Sujan T.V. Parthasaradhi

Presentation Topics: “The Business Case for Biometrics in Commercial Greenfield Markets” on November 2 and “Characteristics of a Reliable Fingerprint Identity Solution for Underprivileged Populations” on November 3.

Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications published an in-depth look at biometrics in physical access control on October 26, 2011. He interviewed several industry experts for the article, including Lumidigm’s Phil Scarfo. In the article, Scarfo discusses biometrics applications in construction and transportation:

Fleet and asset managers want to use biometrics to know who is driving a particular vehicle or who packed a particular container, Scarfo explains. “In essence there will be a biometric switch instead of an ignition that will enable the driver to be identified at the home office,” he says.

Click here to read the full article at SecureIDNews.com.