IRISCAN

Open-source biometrics

One person, one identity.

We check that each person in your register is enrolled only once. Someone who already has a loan, a benefit or a patient file with you is flagged even under a different name. For iris, you buy a USB scanner (from about $50), start a trial and get a key to our cloud, from $99 a month. Face and fingerprint checks run in your own app with our open-source SDK or come as integration projects.

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Identity is too important to be a black box.

So we build biometrics in the open. Our SDK and converters are on GitHub, iris and face images are kept in standard ISO records, so another matcher can compute its own templates from them, and the same matcher runs on our cloud or on your own servers. A lender, a clinic, an aid agency or a national registry can check what it runs, own its data and leave whenever it wants.

Who it is for

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Lenders and microfinance

Whether you lend to farmers, market traders or shop owners, a borrower who defaulted cannot come back under another name. In a Malawi field trial, repayment among the riskiest borrowers went from 67% to 92% once they were fingerprinted.

Fintech and microfinance →
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Clinics and insurers

One patient, one record, and a membership card that does not work for a relative.

Hospitals · Health insurance →
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NGOs and aid programs

Each person registered once and served once, with or without documents, offline in the field.

NGOs and aid programs →
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Governments and public registers

One person, one record in voter, social and civil registers, with the matcher on government servers when the data must stay in the country.

Elections and public registers →

What others saved

  • 67% → 92% repayment among the riskiest borrowers in Malawi once they were fingerprinted, in a randomized trial (J-PAL)
  • 41% and 47% less leakage in a public jobs program and in pensions in India with biometric smartcards: about $40 million a year saved on $6.3 million spent, in a randomized trial (J-PAL)
  • $1.4 million a month saved on food aid in the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya after biometric checks at distributions cut the number of people collecting rations by 21% (WFP and UNHCR audit)
  • 15–16% fewer claims at Ghana’s national health insurance after biometric checks at clinics, by its deputy director for claims systems (AMCIS 2018)

How it works

  1. Buy a scanner. A supported USB iris scanner from about $50 connects to a Windows or Linux laptop, or to an Android tablet with our enrollment app.
  2. Enroll on our cloud. Each person is scanned once and checked against everyone already enrolled, so a second registration is flagged for review.
  3. Identify in seconds. Next time the person looks at the scanner and you get their record, without a card or a document.

Start with a kit

Rather not order hardware yourself? One USB iris scanner delivered, the first three months of the cloud for up to 25,000 people, remote setup and staff training. Larger organizations start with a pilot on their own data.

$590starter kit, excluding VAT

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Cloud prices

Cloud · $99 a month

Up to 25,000 people in your register, checks and operators included, 14-day free trial without a card.

Larger registers

You pay per person in your register: $0.004 a month for each of the first 50,000, less above that. 100,000 people cost $300 a month.

Pilot · $2,500

Six months for up to 50,000 people with four scanners and training. Your own servers are an option too.

Prefer to keep the data in your own data centre? The same matcher runs on your servers under a separate licence.

Calculate your price On your servers

Why Iriscan

Your data stays yours

Iris and face images are stored in ISO formats. Export them at any time, or move the same matcher to your own servers.

Open source at the core

Our Biometric SDK and fingerprint converter are open source on GitHub, so you can check what runs on your devices. Building a closed-source product on them? A commercial licence lifts the GPL obligations.

EU-funded research

Our biometric data converter was built within the EU's NGI DAPSI program, and our biometric identity and credit history prototype INGRESS within NGI ONTOCHAIN.

Hardware we stand behind

We are an official reseller of CardLogix: BIOSID rugged tablets and Vista iris and face cameras.