La base de données d'image est la dernière technologie supplémentaire à la plateforme de commande de frontière

 Ian Grant

Le ministre Liam Byrne d'immigration la semaine dernière a dévoilé un système de base de données image-basé par £50,000 qui associe des empreintes digitales, un visa et un nombre unique de passeport à un individu. Le système est la dernière planche dans le £400m du gouvernement E-Frontières plateforme de technologie de commande de frontière.

Le système pilote pour confirmer l'identité des visiteurs au R-U fonctionnera sur la borne du nord de Gatwick de septembre 2007 à avril 2008, en utilisant des données des demandeurs de visa de Sierra Leone. If successful, the government may extend it to cover up to five million visitors a year from non-European countries, excluding the US. The pilot is part of a wider biometric-based border control system for the EU called BioDev 2. The BioDev 2 consortium members are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the UK. A Home Office spokesman said the project is 80% funded by the EU. Britain has contributed about £28,000 to the European Commission for BioDev 2.

Motorola, Zetes and Sagem, which earlier supplied the iris recognition system for the Home Office’s “trusted traveller” scheme, are the three main suppliers to the BioDev project. Motorola supplied the Gatwick installation, and will install similar systems in other EU countries later.

Mike Lyne, assistant director at the Border & Immigration Agency, said the department is pleased with the system’s performance so far. Some 5,000 names and related images are in the pilot database.

Most come from the collection UKVisas has been building since September 2006, when giving biometric details became compulsory for visa applications from some countries.

Fred Preston, Motorola’s project leader, said the system finds a matching record in milliseconds.

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