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Dr. Mariani’s (former CTO and Founder of XID Technologies) face recognition technology was amongst the selected finalists in the Far Eastern Economic Review's Asian Innovation Awards which honour Asia's emerging technopreneur, based on innovation, technology and the commercial potential of its business product/process.

The prestigious award, was presented at a gala dinner in Singapore by prime minister, Goh Chok Tong

Since 1991, the Safety and Security Asia conference has served as a dedicated forum for highlighting global trends and issues and has acted as an important resource venue for security practitioners and decision-makers from the region.

During XID presentation at the conference, it covered many aspects of face recognition technology from a complexity analysis to sensitivity of matching algorithms.

XID also exhibited their latest technology development at the exhibition, together with partner Miltrade Technologies Pte Ltd. XID and Miltrade collaborated on the development of infra-red cameras incorporating face recognition technology. The resulting product was demonstrated at XID’s exhibition booth.

In collaboration with Miltrade Technologies, a technology partner of XID in the infra-red camera space, XID ported its technology to an infra-red camera provided by Miltrade. Having achieved this, XID’s face recognition system is able to perform more accurately and efficiently, particularly in low light conditions. The system, known as MTech FacialScan, will be demonstrated Safety & Security Asia on October 8th to 10th.

Designed to secure access and prevent security breaches within a facility, XID’s invention, known as XID WorkWear, is an innovative biometric solution that enables a two factor authentication in environments where traditional smart card based access control solutions are not feasible - where RFID frequencies interfere with sensitive machinery in hospitals for example or for temporary access at seminars, sporting events etc when smart cards are simply too expensive for temporary issue.

XID WorkWear combines XID’s face recognition technology with its tag recognition technology. Simple tags replace the smart cards; the tags contain no electronic components and can be printed simply and quickly at an exhibition registration counter, or sewn onto a uniform for example.

At a Marcus Evans organized regional symposium, XID gave a presentation titled “How Biometrics Can Help Secure Your Organization”. The presentation gave an overview of biometric technologies, their positive and negative aspects, performance measurements, best practices …

Impressed by XID’s technologies’ and ability to speedily port them to Linux and embedded Linux, Sun Microsystems invited XID to participate in its “Adopting Open Technology for Open Government” road show in July 2003.

Covering five capital cities, the event targeted the government and law enforcement markets in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and India. There, XID demonstrated its technology with Sun.

Mr. Hong-Eng Ho -Director for Industry Sales Development (Government) Sun Microsystems, South Asia- made a presentation in each city, during which he highlighted XID’s technologies. Attendees visited XID’s demonstration booth after the presentation.

“With more than 20 years of experience working with best of breed partners to deliver proven solutions to customers, Sun Microsystems is constantly building successful partnerships with companies providing leading edge technologies. XID offers innovative face recognition technologies and we are confident of a long, fruitful partnership.”

Lionel Lim, Vice President & Managing Director, Asia South, Sun Microsystems