Zetes Increases People ID Solutions with Fixed Enrolment Station

Zetes is launching a fixed enrolment station that combines the capture of photographs, biometric fingerprinting and signatures. This station brings together all three necessary components for “live enrolment” during the production of official identity documents which satisfy ICAO norms, e.g. for identity cards, passports or driving licences.

This permanent station includes the same features as Zetes’ mobile biometric kit, which has been successfully used during a number of voter enrolment projects in Africa. To date, more than 60 million people have been enrolled for voting using Zetes’ mobile biometric kits.

Featuring a more solid construction, Zetes’ fixed enrolment station is designed to be permanently installed in communities, embassies, consular posts, airports or other administrative centres. Zetes has already completed several permanent installations, for example, on the Ivory Coast, for the production of biometric passports, biometric visas and consular cards and in Belgian embassies, for the statements of information required for producing Schengen visas and passports. These installations satisfy the same demands in terms of security, but do not require a major logistical operation or time consuming installation and maintenance.

Using its previous experience Zetes has developed a complete solution, which is extremely flexible, ergonomic and easy to maintain. For instance, the various elements can be separated in order to correspond to the configuration of the site, e.g. capture of digital fingerprints and signature at the counter and taking of photographs elsewhere.

In addition, the enrolment station can be equipped with a variety of different biometric readers. Finally, if the taking of a live photograph is not required on site, a scanner can be installed on the operator’s side as an alternative, in order to obtain a digital copy of the photograph provided by the citizen in question.

In addition to providing enrolment stations and training services, Zetes also provides services for AFIS deduplication, creating secure databases (e.g. national registers) as well as the production and personalisation of documents.