TECHNOLOGY

Making your world safer through patented infrared vein-matching technology.

Global e·dentity™ is a patented vein-matching system for face or full-body recognition, built to secure biometrics with an unequaled match rate. The complete list of our published intellectual property patents is on the Intellectual Property page.

The Foundations of a New Technology

Looking a bit deeper inside the hand — a world not visible to the naked eye — begins to emerge. Inside the finger, the bone structure and the matrix of veins and arteries are unique to every human. Measuring thousands of data points and their spatial relationships provides the attributes necessary to prove individual identity. Blood flow and heartbeat provide further dual proof-of-life. Because these multimodal biometric measurements depend on structures and signals beneath the skin, they are far harder to lift from a surface or spoof than a fingerprint or a photograph.

Close-up scan visualizing the vein and bone structure beneath the skin's surface

Three Ways to See Beneath the Skin

Vein access technology falls into three main approaches. Near-Infrared (NIR) relies on the hemoglobin inside veins to absorb infrared light, producing a map of the veins under the skin's surface. CMUT Ultrasound sends a pulse of sound into the body from a transducer and reads the reflection to map deeper vascular structures — a Doppler variant of this same approach detects blood flow itself, from the shift in frequency of the reflected wave. Transillumination positions bright, colored LEDs directly on the skin's surface; as the light passes through, deoxygenated blood absorbs some of it, producing a true representation of a vein's location, size and depth. Global e·dentity™'s patented infrared transducer technology builds on these same principles — full technical detail is documented in our issued U.S. patents.

Applications

Universal ID™ is designed to work anywhere an identity needs confirming — from a phone in your pocket to a checkpoint at the border: mobile phones, airport security, healthcare, education institutions, online transactions and ATMs, vehicles, wearables, and identification passports.

Traveler using biometric identity verification at an airport checkpoint

Diagram of the six physiological biometric modalities resolved into a single Universal ID™

How It's Delivered

Universal ID™ is delivered as a licensable technology platform — a multimodal biometric SDK that partners integrate into their own hardware and applications, rather than a single fixed product. Qualified government agencies, health systems and enterprise partners can request the Gen-2 evaluation SDK to test the technology directly.

Universal ID™ in the Field

Multimodal biometric health-screening demonstration at an airport checkpoint

Vascular-matching biometric identification demonstration

Universal ID™ biometric identification technology overview

Universal ID™ full-body biometric scanning for border and transaction security

Introduction to Global e·dentity's Universal ID™ biometric platform

SAFER TRANSACTIONS & IDENTIFICATION

Safer transactions and identification

See how Universal ID™ can help your institution with the security of identity, data, access, border and immigration control. Contact us to learn more.

Gen-2 SDK is available for evaluation

For technical teams and qualified partners evaluating Universal ID™'s multimodal biometric SDK.

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ABOUT GLOBAL E·DENTITY™

We are continually developing virtually impenetrable, multi-modal, secure identification products to make the world a smarter and safer place – a bold new world that is free of old encumbrances of physical identification.