The CONFIDENT
Childcare Management System from Lifewares is used in daycare centers,
churches and schools to control the dropping off and picking up of
children by parents or guardians. VeriFinger provides the fast and
accurate fingerprint recognition capabilities that make CONFIDENT a
solution that childcare facilities and parents trust to ensure the
safety of their children.
Company profile
- Based in New Jersey, Lifewares is a provider of childcare management solutions with offices in the US, Australia and the UK.
- In
October 2002, Lifewares began development of the CONFIDENT Childcare
Management System, and in 2003 began working with Neurotechnologija's
VeriFinger SDK fingerprint identification software development kit to
add biometric fingerprint recognition to the product.
- The
company officially opened its doors by launching the first version of
CONFIDENT in December 2004 and has since become a trusted provider of
childcare management systems.
Reliability is paramount when the safety of children is at stake.
Lifewares
chose VeriFinger to provide fast and accurate biometric identification
capabilities in their CONFIDENT Childcare Management System.
Each day millions of children around the world are dropped-off at
daycare centers, schools and churches. Properly identifying each child
and the parents or guardians who are approved to pick them up is of
critical importance, particularly in this era of increased security
concerns and parental custody disputes.
Most childcare facilities have some sort of
process for managing the identity of children and their proper
guardians. These solutions range from a clipboard and paper to wrist
bands, ID cards or claim checks. These processes are largely manual,
which can create bottlenecks at the end of the work day or when a
church service ends and a large group of parents try to pick-up their
children at the same time. Some of these processes also have high
consumable costs and they put the burden of identification at the
discretion of child care workers who may be overwhelmed during busy
periods. This is of particular concern for large churches, where often
the combination of open-door policies and young, volunteer childcare
staff make them even more vulnerable to predators or parental custody
situations.
With the fingerprint recognition capabilities
in CONFIDENT, every parent or guardian checking a child in or out of a
facility accesses their account using their fingerprint. Using the
VeriFinger fingerprint recognition engine, CONFIDENT quickly identifies
the child's and guardian's fingerprints and calls up the appropriate
file for verification with photographs on the computer screen. Offering
this capability to customers has provided Lifewares with a strong
competitive differentiator over other childcare management systems
because it:
- Eliminates check in and check out lines without compromising security
- Offers
a huge competitive advantage and differentiator to schools, daycare
centers, and churches because using this technology allows them to
emphasize their focus on security
- Allows effortless attendance tracking and communication with childcare facility clients
- Automates many of the logistical functions and historical record keeping required by facilities offering childcare services.
Integration of fingerprint recognition is a snap using the VeriFinger SDK
Using biometric fingerprint recognition not only adds a strong level of
security, it is extremely fast, inexpensive (no consumables), and
convenient. After carefully considering other biometric fingerprint
recognition algorithms on the market, Lifewares chose VeriFinger
because it offered the following benefits:
- Fast and reliable algorithm that ensures a high degree of security when needed
- Support for multiple scanners, enabling Lifewares to choose the best scanner for their clients
- Easy to integrate
with existing systems because VeriFinger offers multi-platform support
and puts data input and output control in the hands of the developer
- Exceptional and in-depth documentation filled with great demos and examples
- Support for current development skills, including their current (Visual Basic 6.0) and future (Visual Studio .NET) development plans
- Lower cost per unit which helps Lifewares offer a their solution at a competitive price.
"The
VeriFinger SDK allowed us to quickly and easily integrate
fingerprinting technology into our solutions, which gave us just the
differentiator we needed to edge out our competitors," said Rick Ritts, president of Lifewares.
"If
you like to jump right in, the VeriFinger libraries are intuitively
organized and easy to understand. If you are a manual reader, you won't
be disappointed by the exceptional documentation, demos, and examples."
About VeriFinger
The VeriFinger
fingerprint identification algorithm from Neurotechnologija is designed
for use by biometric system integrators and provides the capabilities
of the most powerful fingerprint recognition algorithms at a highly
competitive price.
VeriFinger's fingerprint matching has been
proven to be one of the fastest and most reliable among competing
identification algorithms in some of the industry's most rigorous
competitions.*
By combining a commonly accepted fingerprint identification scheme with
Neurotechnologija's proprietary algorithmic solutions that enhance
system performance and reliability, the VeriFinger algorithm provides
fast, reliable matching of specific fingerprint minutiae points for
both one-to-one and one-to-many matching.
VeriFinger SDK
enables the rapid development and integration of biometric applications
by giving integrators complete control over the SDK data input and
output. As one of the most widely compatible fingerprint identification
and matching SDKs in the industry, VeriFinger SDK can be used with any
scanner, any database and any user interface and on Microsoft Windows,
Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
*
Neurotechnologija ranked among the top five companies for accuracy in
single-finger tests in the National Institute of Standards &
Technology (NIST)'s Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation for the US
Department of Justice; and the company's algorithms have consistently
won gold, silver and bronze medals in International Fingerprint
Verification Competitions (FVC2004, FVC2002 and FVC2000).
For more information:
For more information about VeriFinger pricing, product capabilities and
specifications as well as other products available from Fulcrum Biometrics, go to:
http://www.fulcrumbiometrics.com/ .
For more information about Lifewares, go to: http://www.lifewares.com/
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