" Your Trusted Partner for Rugged Biometric Computers".
mobID is a Virginia based privately held company that designs, develops, and manufactures fully integrated HBCs (Handheld Biometric Computers). The company is headquartered in Northern Virginia. mobID has contracted with a team of highly talented engineers who are developing the most advanced HBC ever offered to the DoD/DHS for field deployment. The mobID HBC will for the first time fully address the biometric, security and wireless needs of the frontline personnel with a secure US built device.
The mobID team has many years of experience in the biometric and computer industry spanning more than forty years. mobID was co-founded in 2002 by Mike Sim who for many years has spearheaded the use and adoption of handheld computers in the biometric world. Mike Sim and Andrew Drabble were pioneers in the late 90s for the use of 2D barcodes with embedded facial biometrics. This process was used successfully by UK Immigration Service in Terminal 4, Heathrow Airport in 2000/2001.
mobID offers its HBC range of devices in either MIL-STD magnesium, composite or rugged plastic with multimodal biometric capability, tattoo recognition, speech recognition, voice translation, object recognition, barcoding, smartcards, RFID, GPS, GPRS and video conferencing in a customer driven menu platform.
The mobID HBC (Handheld Biometric Computer)
The mobID HBC is a US designed and built handheld biometric computer. The unit combines for the first time multiple features that distinguish the mobID HBC from any of its competitors. The unit has been equipped with the Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor to provide either an XPe or Linux operation platform. In the field of multimodal biometric mobid has surpassed the industry with the following biometric capability.
- 500 dpi optical fingerprint scanner meeting FBI/PIV Resolution Standards
- 2D facial recognition which meets NIST/ISO Resolution Standards (EBT compliant)
- Iris recognition with unique "Extended Depth of Field" capability
- Voice recognition, speech recognition and voice translation