Tonson Technologies LLC is a US based, widely diversified consulting firm dedicated to providing a broad range of integrated solutions for domestic and international markets; particularly in the field of government related information technology systems. Headquartered within the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Tonson Technologies is strategically positioned to provide a multicultural perspective necessary for international marketing and are utilizing their vast, high level global contacts to present XID's technologies and solutions to government bodies around the world.

"We signed the alliance in late August and already the relationship with Tonson is starting to show signs of great promise; one opportunity in the Middle East has surfaced as a result of their business relationships in that region for example," said Myles Kendrick, former Director at XID Technologies.

[17-06-05] XID launches New Access Control Device.

“The software behind this new device is a new release of the software we deployed at the now well known immigrant workers dormitory in Singapore,” explain Myles Kendrick, Director at XID. “That system is the worlds largest of its kind and has been in operation for more than one year now. It is operating in a blue-collar environment, outdoors, 24/7; this is a very complex environment so clearly, this new device has solid, robust software behind it.”

“To date, these units have been deployed for customers in the education sector in Singapore and projects are now underway in Malaysia, Italy and Israel,” continues Kendrick.

The device houses a camera, 4’ TFT monitor and either a card reader or keypad. It is controlled by a separate controller interface supporting four wiegand device connections and eight output relays.

XID also offer kiosk based solutions. These fully mobile, self contained units offer a 15’ LCD monitor making them suitable for scenarios in which it is important to display key information to the user. XID’s kiosks are now in operation in the USA, Canada, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy and Croatia.

“Our solutions are deployed either directly by XID or via a chosen system integrator depending on the project size and customer requirements,” says Kendrick. “We are continually looking for channel partners and resellers with specific capabilities in their particular market. This enables us to not only reach a broad base of customers but also to ensure efficient and well maintained solutions for those customers.”

XID and Digitalembrace signed a partnership agreement, enabling Digitalembrace to distribute XID's face recognition software in Canada and the USA.

Digitalembrace specialize in migration management in business enhancing systems and processes and were looking for a partner in the biometric space for sometime. Randy Chinn, Senior Managing Partner: "Digitalembrace is excited to partner with a proven, innovative facial recognition provider. Now, we can deliver cutting edge security solutions to protect our clients in Canada and the US."

Following the Global Security Asia exhibition and conference, on April 1st XID were on CNBC and in the Straits Times:

- CNBC - "Generation-e" 6:30pm and repeated several times on April 2nd and 3rd
- Straits Times, Singapore, Home section page H12. A similar article was featured on the web version.

XID together with Malaysian partners IRIS Corporation, recently exhibited at Global Security Asia. On display was XID's new Authentication Kiosk integrated to IRIS's passport reader as well as other biometric products from IRIS and XID's interactive Predictive Face Synthesis.

Speaking at the seminar, the company talked of XID's installation in Singapore that controls access for 6,000 blue-collar workers. XID talked about the customer requirements and XID's first hand experiences integrating a face recognition system to such a complicated environment.

XID also highlighted some of the differences between 2D and 3D face recognition systems.

XID was one of the many highlights at this years CeBIT exhibition in Germany.

On display at CeBIT, for the first time publicly, was XID’s latest Authentication Kiosk designed primarily for Access Control as well as for registration of visitors/patients at healthcare facilities for example. XID has so far sold their kiosks to the USA, Italy and Singapore and with orders about to be confirmed for Canada and China at the time of writing this news item.

A new innovation, also shown publicly for the first time, was XID’s Image Correction Tool. This innovative tool reconstructs inconsistent facial images. For example, a database may contain faces that are rotated to the left or right - XID’s tool performs frontal reconstruction of these images and produces a frontal image ready for matching.

XID's award winning, add-on face recognition tool, Predictive Face Synthesis, designed to improve the performance of face recognition engines was also on show, as an interactive modular interface.

“Visitors to our stand were primarily system integrators and security solution providers. All were looking for biometric systems and in particular for robust face recognition systems that can be integrated as an API to their existing software solutions; access control/time and attendance suites, registration of visitors/patients, mobile phone authentication ... ” said Myles Kendrick, former Director and co-founder of XID.