M2SYS Blog On Biometric Technology

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Recently, M2SYS participated in the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Career Fair at The Cobb Galleria Center seeking local talent to fill open positions as we continue our rapid growth. The fair was well organized with over 1,000 job candidates in attendance looking to stand out as they weaved their way through the aisles gathering information and engaging with employers in face to face conversations.

The M2SYS booth was very busy the entire day, often with a line five to 10 candidates deep seeking to talk with us and learn more about biometrics, the identification technology which is slowly revolutionizing the world that we live in.

We were fortunate enough to have many in-depth conversations at the career fair with a diverse set of candidates representing the Engineering and Project Management fields. Many were very curious about what we do here at M2SYS and had done their homework prior to visiting our booth, intelligently discussing the biometrics market and demonstrating their knowledge and desire to work with a company in such an exciting and burgeoning field with a very optimistic forecast for future growth.

Candidates asked many questions about RightPunch™ our PC-based biometric time clock and RightPatient™ a biometric patient identification system that uses iris recognition technology. Many also inquired about our new AFIS suite of biometric software products which we recently launched as an affordable alternative to some of the more expensive AFIS systems on the market.

If you are currently living in or around the Atlanta metropolitan area and are seeking employment with experience in Computer Software Engineering, Project Management, Sales or Finance please visit the career section of our Web site and send us your resume along with a cover letter.

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Two stories in the news caught our eye over the past week where hospitals appealed for the public’s help to identify patients who were admitted under different circumstances. Occasionally, a person will enter a hospital or medical center without any patient identification and due to their medical condition (unconsciousness, dementia, Alzheimer’s, etc.) the facility is unable to determine their identity.

The first case happened when officials and police in Shreveport, LA asked for the public’s help to identify the victim of an automobile accident when the unidentified patient was brought to the hospital without an ID. The only information that police and hospital officials had to go on was a possible first name and a theory on where the victim was from.

The second case comes from Los Angeles, CA where a man was brought to Memorial Medical Center by ambulance without any documentation or evidence of his identity. The article did not elaborate on why there was a problem identifying the patient since he appeared to be conscious but perhaps he was unable to speak or may have been suffering from Alzheimer’s or another type of dementia.

Both of these cases demonstrate the periodic problems that hospitals and medical centers can experience when attempting to positively identifying a patient in the absence of a relative or friend or any type of insurance card or picture ID. To circumvent these types of problems in the future, healthcare facilities can deploy biometric patient identification to ID any patients who may have an existing medical record linked with a biometric template. If the patient arrives without the ability to confirm their identity, the healthcare facility can take a picture of their iris or scan their palm and quickly scan the master patient index (MPI) to determine if they have visited in the past.

In times of emergency (especially if someone arrives without the ability to identify themselves) a patient may have a special medical condition that would affect the care they receive and could die if a proper identification tool did not exist. Biometric patient ID can help to quickly identify that patient if their information has previously been established and is on file. Just another example of how biometric patient identification is a great fit for healthcare.

Due to a scheduling conflict, we had to move this month’s #biometricchat tweet chat with Terry Hartmann from Unisys Corporation back to 03/15/12 at 11 a.m. EST. The topic will be the history of biometrics and cloud computing, where we are now and what the future may hold.

Please see our previous post about the content of the chat and mark off 03/15 at 11 a.m. EST (12 p.m. CST, 9 a.m. PST), and come prepared to the chat with your questions and input on the topic. See you then!

M2SYS CEO to Speak at 2012 Biometrics Summit

Where: Miami Hilton Downtown, Miami, FL

When: February 27 – March 1, 2012

M2SYS Informational Session: Day two,  02/29/12, 3:25pm

M2SYS CEO Mizan Rahman will be speaking next week at the 2012 Biometrics Summit in Miami, FL. Mizan will be joined by James Rokosky from our partners at DSI-ITI, LLC. to dicsuss using multi-modal biometrics to enhance the public safety sector by securing the identification and tracking of inmates and visitors.

Due to increasing crime rates, correctional facilities are finding it difficult to securely manage the ever-growing number of identification records for prisoners and visitors. Proper identification of inmates prior to release is critical to public safety, and often times, over-populated and under-staffed jails may release unauthorized inmates due to human error or to inmates swapping ID bracelets with other inmates. Multi-modal biometric identification solutions provide a fail-safe way to properly manage correctional facilities. By using biometric identification at key areas throughout a detention center, the management system can track inmate and visitor movements throughout the day. Inmate and visitor whereabouts can be determined at any time, which increases accountability and in turn, increases overall jail security and safety.

Sharing experiences of how biometrics has evolved in the public safety sector, this session will focus on the functionality and advantages of using multi-modal biometric identification in detention centers for inmate and visitor management, including:

• How to deploy biometric identification for prisoner and visitor identification within a facility
• Why liabilities inherent with identity management in the public safety sector are virtually eliminated with biometric identification
• Using accurate and efficient multi-modal biometric technology to track and control visitor registration and inmate intake, release, medicine dispersal and location

If you are in Miami for the conference, please drop in to hear Mizan speak. Hope to see you there!

March - biometrics and cloud computing

When: March 1, 2012

11:00 am EST, 8:00 am PST, 16:00 pm BST, 17:00 pm (CEST), 23:00 pm (SGT), 0:00 (JST)

Where: tweetchat.com (hashtag #biometricchat)

What: Tweet chat on biometrics and cloud computing

Topics: The exponential growth of biometric data, leveraging the cloud for big data biometrics, applications that can benefit from biometric cloud computing, the burdens of new biometric modalities, the future of biometrics and the cloud

We are pleased to announce that Terry Hartmann from Unisys will be joining us at the March #biometricchat to discuss the past, current and possible future state of biometric cloud computing. The explosion of biometric data records in the last few years has precipitated the need to find efficient ways to store and process identity verification at often real-time speeds for the institutions that rely on this technology for security and other uses. Cloud computing has provided a fortuitous venue to store and process this data, our goal for the chat is to ask Terry some questions about the history of biometrics and the cloud, what advances have been made in the past few years and what we expect to see in the future as petabytes of biometric data mount and more agencies and organizations seek efficiency, speed and continued security for their deployments.

Just in case you are interested in participating but are new to Tweet chats, please read this post which outlines the instructions and procedures. We hope that you will join us for the discussion, and please spread the word among your colleagues and friends.

Do you have any questions that you would like to ask Terry? Please send them to: john@m2sys.com or come prepared with your questions, comments and feedback on Thursday, March the 1st at 11am EST.