Government and Civil ID

Major businesses and governments rely on robust and reliable fingerprint sensor security to protect critical physical and logical assets.  Whether authenticating holders of national ID cards or securing access to government facilities, AuthenTec fingerprint sensors are used around the world to provide high levels of security.  AuthenTec's TCS1 TouchChip fingerprint sensor is the world's only silicon fingerprint sensor that meets strict FIPS 201 specifications for verifying the identity of millions of U.S. government employees and contractors.

AuthenTec meets fingerprint image quality requirements demanded by FIPS 201 compliance, while offering very significant cost, size and power advantages over today's Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) optical scanners.  AuthenTec's TouchChip products are used in numerous environments including door locks, handheld terminals, USB readers, keyboards and ID tokens. 

AuthenTec offers TouchChip sensors, modules and USB readers for government and civil ID customers including industry leaders and makers of citizen ID cards readers in Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong, as well as access control devices, safes, keyboards, USB readers, ID tokens and many other devices.