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Homeland Security

Lumidigm Developing Multispectral, Multi-Biometric Hand Sensor

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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

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Lumidigm Inc., received a $730,000 contract from the Army to continue development of a multimodal whole-hand sensor based on multispectral imaging technology. The award is through the Small Business Innovation Research Program. In Phase I Lumidigm developed an early prototype model and proved out its concept. In Phase II the company will deliver a whole hand sensor within 18 months. The new sensor will collect fingerprints, palmprints, skin textural characteristics and hand shape and score level multi-biometric fusion will be…

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