Steria AFIS

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AFIS solutions
The perfect match
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SteriaAFIS – the perfect match
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Match results in real time
SteriaAFIS is a joy to work with. Its super-fast algorithm provides a list of best matches
as you input each minutia. No waiting and no need to input more minutiae than necessary.
It’ll change your working day!
Only a small
server is required
to run SteriaAFIS
with large databases
Setting new standards in AFIS processing
SteriaAFIS uses a unique algorithm and binary-processing
approach to significantly reduce search time. Processing takes
seconds rather than minutes, which means you see match
results from each additional minutia as you input them.
This gives a much more rewarding and effective workflow and
faster results, even from low-quality latents.
Highly accurate
SteriaAFIS is in full compliance with ANSI/NIST, ISO and FBI
standards. It consists of core functionality for single-finger and
latent search, with additional readily integrated modules for
ten-prints, mugshots, irides and palms, including full prints
and writer’s palms. The fast matcher allows for a full 20-finger
search in less than two seconds using both rolled and flatimpression
fingerprints, which increases probability of a match
for poor-quality material.
Furthermore, SteriaAFIS stores and processes more information
per minutia. Other systems use all or a combination of minutia
type, orientation, angle and print quality during processing.
SteriaAFIS does all this, but also recognises ridge-curvature
direction. This benefit comes in to its own when processing lowquality
latents where accuracy and speed of match is greatly
enhanced using this additional information.
Steria has worked closely with police forces
for twenty years

SteriaAFIS – the perfect match
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After a small
number of minutiae
are marked, the
system gives
you a range of
fingerprints with
the best match at
the top
User friendly
As a top-ten European IT services company, Steria is known for
user-friendly solutions. SteriaAFIS is no different. The icon-based
user-interface is very easy to learn and operate. In fact, users say
that the system is so intuitive training is almost redundant!
SteriaAFIS processes data in all resolutions, including mixedresolution
data sets, and works in multiple languages.
Working from experience
Building on 20-plus years’ experience in biometric solutions,
including the successful SteriaFITPlus fingerprint capture,
processing and transmission software, Steria uses its competence
to best effect with SteriaAFIS. The speed, accuracy and simplicity
of this innovative software helps increase the effectiveness of
automated fingerprint identification systems for police forces,
public authorities and private companies faced with the
challenges of keeping order and securing access.

SteriaAFIS – the perfect match
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Receive match results as you work
See latent-to-tenprint matches with clear points of comparison visualised
Flat fingerprint menu – view quality control images and sequence check results
Interface with remote systems, such as EURODAC and PRÜM
Compare full palms and writer’s palms
Mugshots are included in the system as part of entrants’ profiles

SteriaAFIS – the perfect match
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Delivering value
There’s no escaping it. In the current climate, authorities across Europe need to do more with less.
With decades of experience working with homeland security and biometrics, we know what it
takes to meet both performance and financial objectives.
Steria’s automated fingerprint identification system, SteriaAFIS,
meets your exacting accuracy and reliability standards, but goes
beyond to offer significant efficiency and cost savings during the
initial investment and through the system’s lifetime. Here’s the
proof:
• Lower initial investment saves budget. Steria’s modular
approach to pricing means you pay for exactly what you get
with no wasted investment. Talk to us about your needs and
we’ll cost a solution that fulfils all your requirements.
• SteriaAFIS is easily scalable, so additional capacity is added
only when needed. This reduces forward planning and doesn’t
tie up funds unnecessarily.
• Lower hardware costs – SteriaAFIS’s unique algorithmic
approach requires less server capacity than alternatives,
which means less investment in expensive hardware.
• SteriaAFIS is fast – very fast in fact. It delivers match results
as you work, which significantly decreases downtime and
increases overall efficiency and capacity giving you a much
more cost-effective workflow.
• SteriaAFIS is non-reliant on proprietary hardware and
image-transmission software, which gives freedom to
configure the system and negotiate the most cost-effective
total solution.
• Lower investment means lower maintenance costs. With
AFIS software, maintenance and support tends to be based
on a percentage of investment. Therefore the lower the
investment, the less you pay over time.
Steria works for immigration authorities across Europe
First- and second-line support is provided by Steria’s extensive
European network of offices and service partners. For more
comprehensive enquiries, Steria’s specialist biometrics support
team at the Group’s Centre of Biometrics Excellence in Norway
is ready to help in any way possible, whether it’s by telephone,
online or onsite.

You’re safe with Steria
Steria, a European end-to-end IT services partner, is a forerunner
in homeland security. It has over 20,000 employees, including a
large pool of NATO and national security-cleared personnel, and
more than 35 years’ experience in delivering large-scale systems
that help increase security and efficiency within clear budgetary
parameters. Here’s a quick summary showing some of Steria’s
areas of expertise:
• Biometrics: SteriaAFIS and fingerprint capture, processing and
transmission systems – SteriaFITPlus, SteriaFITPlus Enterprise,
SteriaFastID
• Secure infrastructures – management, design, hardware,
data protection, network security, etc.
• Secure intelligence databases, such as Schengen – includes
delivery and support of secure electronic content management
• Command and control systems – ‘field’ supervision and
action coordination
• Investigation case management systems – operative support
and analysis
• System-to-system information systems – SOA, distributed
architectures, secure messaging
For further details of our solutions, services and innovations
download the brochure from steria.com/homeland today.
Our biometrics clients
• Police forces in 26 European countries
• European Commission – Eurodac, Schengen, Prüm and Visa
Information Systems
• Norwegian armed forces
• European immigration authorities
• Local authorities across Europe
• National governments, including Norway, Sweden, UK, France,
Belgium and Germany
• Commercial sector clients, including Barclaycard, T-Com,
Antwerp Diamond Bank and Banque de France
• French, British and Swedish Civil Aviation Authorities
and many more
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Biometrics Centre of Excellence
Steria Norway
Tel: +47 22 57 56 00
Fax: +47 22 57 59 60
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