What Are Biometrics Enrollment Services?

By Author: Arvind Sharma
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Biometrics is quantifiable forms of data related to human characteristics. Biometric identification is used to identify a person. Biometric enrolment is one of the applications – which are used to protect the identity of international travellers. Biometric enrolment application includes digital finger prints and digital photographs. These imprints and photographs need to be taken as per the international standards. These standards are set by international civil aviation organization.

Biometrics processes

This process is used for visa application and approval process in various ways. However, to simplify it, the first step of this process for visa is biometric enrolment – it’s a process used to identify and capture the biometric information for the first time. The traditional description includes quite a few steps such as:

• User approaches the enrolment enter
• Reference details are entered in the system.
• User enters the finger print details and photograph in biometric scanner for image scanning.
• Captured details are transformed into digital fingerprint and photograph. ...
... It is stored along with the reference ID and name.

The truth is, the biometric enrolment process is crucial for storage and retrieval as these details are used as the reference point for further international travel plans.

The advantages of biometric enrolment processes

These services are being implemented across several nations to protect the identity of nationals. The fact remains, several countries and companies consider biometric ID as safe and accurate. So, here are the advantages of the mass-scale implementation.

• The finger print and photograph is the primary identification and verification information. The authentic information must be matched and verified. It is simple to have and yet very unique. It is easy for identification.
• It is safeguarding the identity of the international travellers. It may seem that anyone can everyone can pass themselves on as international travellers. However, it is rather impossible to reproduce accurate fingerprint and photograph. So, it protects the identity of the international traveller in a foreign country. Though, this service may not always be necessary, it is really useful if the national is in any kind of medical, legal or financial emergency.

There are several other biometric details that are unique enough and reusable enough. For example:

• DNA
• Palm print
• Hand Geometry
• Iris recognition
• Retina
• Typing rhythm
• Gait
• Voice

However, it is important to understand that finger print and photograph are easy to capture, store, retrieve and match. In other words, the processing for finger print and photograph is unique enough to depend upon.

About the Author

Arvind Sharma is an employee of Cox and Kings Global Services. Along with wanting to ensure that travellers have extensive information about Biometric enrollment and biometric enrollment services, he also prefers to research about the biometric enrollment process.