Industrial Product Development
Spotlight
Company: Identix Corporation
Industry: Digital Biometrics Scanners
HQ: California, USA
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Identix Corporation, established in August 1982, designs, develops, manufactures, and marketed user authentication solutions by capturing and/or comparing fingerprints for security applications and personal identification
Product/Project Highlights
Biometric Palm Scanner
Client: Identix Corporation
- Captures whole-hand fingerprints
- Meets FBI fingerprinting requirements
- Cooling system for the interior also prevents fogging on the curved glass
- Ruggedized to survive rough treatment, some people don’t want to be finger printed
- Conceptual development through detailed engineering, sourcing and assembly/testing”
Situation:
Identix Corporation was looking to develop a new product that no other company was producing to capture finger prints from a person's palm and all fingers at the same time with high resolution. They approached Solid to help, and we began working together to document the full requirements for the system.
Biometric Palm Scanner
Client: Identix Corporation
Process:
Solid participated from gathering requirements to conceptualizing solution options through to production start up at the selected contract manufacturer. Working closely with our Client, Solid followed our Phase Gate Process for product design and development. Our engineers and designers first developed and then refined options for integrating the fibre optic bundle from the incandescent bulb light source into a line of fibres. This created a line of light projected onto the curved glass which was mounted on a shaft to rotate the line of light 180 degrees. A fold mirror was integrated onto the shaft to pass the light reflected from the glass into a camera lens. To vent the heat built up from the light source, Solid integrated forced air venting. Output air from the venting was exhausted around the ends of the curved glass to warm the surface of the glass and reduce the occurrence of the glass fogging around fingers. Once the Client approved the design, Solid created all of the engineering drawings for custom components and assemblies, completed sourcing, quoting and procurement activities. Solid inspected the components when received, assembled the first prototype unit and coordinated with our Client to conduct testing and control programming. Solid then worked with our Client to finalize selection of a contract manufacturer and the engineering documentation was transferred.
Solution:
The Identix Palm Scanner is a line scanner for capturing whole-hand fingerprints meeting FBI fingerprinting requirements. This unit was ruggedized to survive rough treatment by individuals who might not want their fingerprints taken