Solutions ยท MOSIP
MOSIP is the free, open-source platform that a growing number of countries use to build their national ID systems. Iriscan makes biometric components for it: our face match SDK already runs inside Inji Wallet, MOSIP's reference wallet, and the same open-source code base brings iris enrollment, matching and 1:N de-duplication to a MOSIP registry, on your servers.
Every country needs a register of its residents: who is who, with a unique number per person, so that passports, voting rolls, bank accounts, pensions and health insurance can all point to the same person. Building such a system from scratch used to mean a multi-year contract with one vendor, and a register the country could not change or even fully inspect afterwards.
MOSIP, the Modular Open Source Identity Platform, is the open-source answer to that. It was started in 2018 at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, is funded by philanthropic foundations rather than by vendors, and is recognised as a digital public good. A government takes the code for free, picks the pieces it needs, and has a local system integrator put them together. MOSIP reports 14 national rollouts and engagements with 32 countries, among them the Philippines, Morocco, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Nigeria and Togo. Several of these registers now hold tens of millions of people each.
The platform is called "modular" because the parts that do the hard work are plugged in, not built in. Three of those parts are biometric, and they are what this page is about:
| MOSIP term | What it means in plain words |
|---|---|
| Bio-SDK | The software library that looks at a face, iris or fingerprint image, checks that it is good enough, turns it into a compact template and compares two templates. MOSIP defines the interface; vendors such as Iriscan supply the engine. |
| ABIS | Automated Biometric Identification System: the server that holds the templates of everyone already registered and answers one question for each new enrollment, "is this person already in the register under another name?" This is what stops duplicate and fraudulent IDs. |
| SBI | Secure Biometric Interface: the standard way a camera or fingerprint scanner talks to the registration software, so any certified device works with any MOSIP deployment. |
| Inji | MOSIP's wallet app. A resident keeps a verified copy of their ID on the phone and proves it is theirs with a selfie, matched on the phone against the photo in the credential. |
MOSIP tests and lists compatible components on its marketplace, so a country or an integrator can see which vendors' parts fit before they commit. If you want the long version, MOSIP's own documentation is open too.
| Component | MOSIP role | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Iriscan Biometric SDK, face match | Face SDK in Inji Wallet: a selfie is compared with the photo in the credential on the phone, nothing leaves the device | Compliant, face modality |
| Iriscan ABIS, 1:N de-duplication | ABIS behind the registration processor: checks each new enrollment against the whole register | Compliance in progress |
| Iriscan Biometric SDK, iris | Bio-SDK for iris quality, extraction and matching | Compliance testing planned |
Compliance on the MOSIP marketplace is based on the partner's own testing against MOSIP's specifications; MOSIP does not endorse listed products. Anyone can verify the entries at the links above.
The SDK is GPL-3.0 on GitHub. Your team can read what runs in the register, build it themselves and keep it running without us.
ABIS and SDK run in the national data center. Templates and images are stored in ISO/IEC 19794 formats, so the register stays usable with any other MOSIP-compatible component.
Worn fingerprints from manual work, dust and age are common in enrollment programs. Iris capture works for these people and for children, and a dual-iris camera takes both eyes in one look.
No per-seat license servers. A per-person licence for your own servers starts at $0.03 a year; see pricing. Integrators building closed-source products use the commercial licence.
Most MOSIP deployments are delivered by system integrators. If you are one, this is what we offer: the ABIS and SDK with a licence for your client's servers, integration support from the engineers who wrote the code, model tuning on the client's population, and a commercial licence when your own product is closed source. You run the deployment; we make the biometric part work.
Yes. The face SDK is the component already in production use with MOSIP. Iris can be added when the enrollment kits are ready.
Our converter reads ISO/IEC 19794-2 and ANSI INCITS 378 fingerprint templates, so an existing fingerprint gallery can be kept alongside iris.
The code is open and documented, and the formats are ISO. Your team or any other vendor can take over; nothing in the register depends on a licence key.
Our face SDK is credited in MOSIP's documentation as the open-source face match component of the Inji reference integration. For iris, we publish our accuracy figures on public datasets.
Tell us about the program: country, number of residents, modalities, and whether you are the integrator or the authority. We answer with a deployment outline and a price.