South African Department of Home Affairs (AFIS) - Nec

NEC AFIS track records withinthe HANIS Project2001 Completion of Phase-1HANIS facility officially opened in Feb, 20022002 Completion of Phase-2 and systemscommissioning2003 Completion of Phase-32005 Completion of system expansion, to cater for70,000 searches per day2008 Completion of system expansion andtechnology upgradeCurrently, over 50 million ten print recordscan be stored within the AFIS, with an initialworkload of 70,000 searches per dayEver faster and ever more accurate“Every fingerprint is different. Every fingerprinthas a different ridge structure. And we utilizesuch minutiae in matching.”, according toMasanori Hara, Project Director of NECCorporation.The better the software is at recognizing suchdifferences, the higher the accuracy there is invalidating an identity. NEC AFIS also works fast,processing as many as 70,000 searches in asingle working day.NEC technology contributed to nationalunityAbout UsNEC Corporation is one of the world’s leadingproviders of Internet, broadband network andenterprise business solutions dedicated tomeeting the specialized needs of its diverse andglobal base of customers. NEC has alsoconsolidated its position in the development,marketing and implementation of biometricssolutions. NEC’s AFIS has enjoyed unparalleledsuccess in the worldwide market, and a largepart of the world’s fingerprints are now stored onNEC’s AFIS, helping solve more crimes fromlatent prints than all other systems.“NEC has provided us with an amazing amountof technological advancement.”, said VusumuzuMkhize, Acting Deputy Director General forCivic Services South African Department ofHome Affairs.Collaboration between NEC and local SouthAfrican engineers was key to the success of theproject. Queues are now shorter and delaysreduced, and the accuracy of the systemdramatically reduces the possibility of the fraudand identity theft that are a growing problem inthe world.But for South Africa, this next-generation digitaldatabase platform also means something more.In the past its citizens were divided by race orbelief. Today, everyone is integrated into asingle digital archive, recognized through NECtechnology by just one universal human feature,their fingerprint.Copyright © 2008 NEC All right reserved.2/2