TRADE SHOWS SPRING 2011




Retail Fraud
IDscan Biometrics, Europes leading ID scanning business will be exhibiting at the Retail Fraud show in London on the 14th April. The company will be presenting its popular HRscan product which is used in the employee enrolment screening process to ensure the authenticity and validity of more than 2600 IDs, Passports, Driving licences, Visas and work permits and will be introducing the retail fraud market to IDscan’s new garment, goods and electronics returns solution. The new product “Retailscan” uses IDscan’s authentication software to protect retailers from “Returns Fraud” , whereby fraudsters, shop lifters and others return items fraudulently gained to either earn cash or valuable voucher redemption. Finally IDscan will be presenting its IDmobile solution which has been a huge success for Hutchinson 3G Mobile Communications.





IFSEC
IDscan will be exhibiting at IFSEC, the global annual security event from the 14th to the 19th of May 2011. IDscan will be presenting its Borderscan product successful launched in Iraq as well as ID check products designed for the Car Hire Companies, Banks, Police, and other applications.

Erbil international airport based in Northern Iraq strives to lead its peers in terms of innovation, customer focus and security. The client had used basic airport MRZ readers which failed to authenticate documents or offer an automated analysis. After carefully completing a thorough review of the market during a six month trial of 5 options, the airport selected IDscan's immigration system based on accuracy, speed and reliability. In a test of 30 fake documents presented in a like for like test, IDscan was the only system trialled that accurately detected all forgeries and altered documents.

Reed is the UKs largest employment agency, with over 300 branches. They wanted to offer their clients the ultimate layer of protection when ensuring that their candidates had the legitimate right to work in the UK. Within the first 2 hours of a 1 month trial, IDscan’s HRscan system automatically highlighted issues in 60 per cent of documents presented. Just 1 week into the trial, Reed were already convinced enough to stop the trial and place their first order.

The IDscan development team had a bit of fun creating our first iphone App to ensure we had the skills in-house for future reference.

The idscan.mobi data app is the easiest and quickest way to build your database in the field. You can customise the app to record just mobile numbers or add email, DOB, gender and even take a photo. Perfect for your Iphone or iPad, an Android version is on its' way.

Download for the idscan.mobi App for free now from the App Store and enjoy your first 50 added contacts at no charge - if you decide you love the App as much as we do then you can opt to upgrade to the full paid version,; which has no restrictions on the size of your database - we welcome your review.

Idscan Biometrics, the specialist Passport and Identity document scanning business, have moved their bespoke age verification products for the leisure, bar and nightclub business to a new domain www.nightclub.co.uk, their main business of document authentication and data extraction is to remain hosted on www.idscan.co.uk.

Idscan’s ID and passport scanning systems use near infra-red, ultraviolet and smart card technology together with advanced character recognition to authenticate more than 2000 documents including passports, visas, id cards, driving licences and work permits. Idscan are EU documents specialist.

IDscan’s systems are being used within the retail environment to detect forged and altered documents and to offer the automated ability to authenticate and record identity documents. Idscan have completed a worldwide roll-out of ID scanning systems for American Express and this month completed more than 300 installations of their Identity document authentication systems across the UK retail estate of Hutchinson Three (the UK’s largest 3G mobile network provider).



Tamlyn Thompson, Managing Director of Idscan Biometrics commented “The division of the business onto the websites www.idscan.co.uk and www.nightclub.co.uk will allow us to define the two directions the business is taking. Nightclub.co.uk will showcase Idscan’s leisure products such as SCAN-NET which is the world’s most advanced age verification system and cloakscan, a fingerprint operated coat check system; while Idscan.co.uk will drive our focus on, retail fraud, passport control and identity card authentication, auch as the system we recently built and installed for Three 3G UK"



Notes:

Idscan's mobile communication client is the largest 3G provider in the UK and has networks across the world. The client wanted to increase the range of IDs accepted when customers applied for contracts as well as the ability to prevent retail fraud, aided by the use of fake, aletered or bogus identity documents. Over a period of serveral months IDscan worked with its' client to develop a new user interface and system that completely automated the authentication process for the instore agent. During August & September 2010 Idscan rolled out more than 300 authentication systems across the clients' entire UK retail network.

Nisa-Today's who are the UK's leading member-owned retail organisation, with more than 5000 stores, providing benefits to independent retailers and wholesalers in food and drink markets have today placed an order for 100 AgeOK systems to be distributed to their members.

AgeOK is the low-cost customer identification system for Off License, Pubs and Supermarkets enabling retailers to verify the customers ID once and take a unique finger scan - each time the customer returns to buy an age controlled product such as cigarettes and alcohol, the customer needs only scan their finger to authorise the legal sale.

Tamlyn Thompson from Idscan Scan Biometrics stated "We are very excited to be working with such a prestigious account such as Nisa-Todays who represent more than 5000 stores in the UK and enjoy a turnover of £1.3 Billion. Although AgeOK is our entry level Age verification system, it is extremely effective when community stores are dealing with regular customers.

This first step in working with Nisa-Todays will lead quickly into the SDK integration of AgesafeHD into their proprietary Epositive EPOS system.

Swell Group who are one the top 20 forecourt operators in the UK and are officially number 8 in the Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for have introduced AgesafeHDpro+ into their recently launched Hull flagship.

The site which is close to a students hall of residence has been encouraged by the volume of young people enrolling in the Agesafe biometric add on which enables regular customers to leave their valuable ID at home once they have registered. Each time your customer returns to store they simply place their finger on the scanner and this is verified against the original ID. All original IDs are pixilated to protect data.

With national underage test purchase failures often hitting a failure rate of more than 50%, the Metropolitan Police's attention was drawn to the 100% pass rate experienced by retailers using IDScan's equipment.

It was decided that the London local borough of Sutton together with the Metropolitan Police should conduct a case study to scrutinise the effectiveness of the systems.

Funding was supplied by the UK Home Office and a six month trial was instigated from November 2009.
It was decided that a thorough investigation into the effectiveness would be best tested by asking for volunteers from the local off-licence and supermarket community of Sutton.
The case study objectives were to appraise the following:

1) Public perception and acceptance;
2) Usability and functionality;
3) Effectiveness in reducing failed test purchases;
4) Effectiveness in reducing proxy purchases;
5) Effectiveness in reducing attempted underage test purchases.

After six months of trial not one of the sites included in the trial failed a test purchase. Whilst more than 15 licensed premises in the Borough failed a test purchase during the same period.

7200 age challenges were made
2200 age challenges were made where ID was volunteered
109 underage alerts from ID cards presented
439 refused sales
61% challenges female
39% challenges male
11% challenges for cigarettes
71% challenges for alcohol

Average age of customer challenged 20.3 years old

Tamlyn Thompson Managing Director of Idscan Biometrics stated "working within the Sri Lankan retail community of Sutton has been a pleasure, what we assumed was to be a obstacle of language and culture proved to be not substantiated as the retailers were welcoming participants who quickly adopted the system and found it represented no impediment to their service"

Tamlyn Thompson continues "We were astounded by the sheer volume of challenges and the success in protecting children from harm"

Idscan Biometrics has completed the final stage of installing a bespoke software package and scanning solution for a bank with Foreign Exchange bureaus throughout the world.

Tamlyn Thompson, Managing Director of Idscan Biometrics stated, Regional foreign exchange regulations required that this American bank examine how ID transaction information was collected and stored to meet financial regulation, anti terrorism and money launderings requirements. The challenge was to minimize the transaction speed for their customers and to ensure that ID transaction information was collected and stored to meet financial regulations, whilst integrating Idscan OCR technology into an already established FX transaction platform. The results have been terrific and we have now received orders from the bank for Spain, France, Italy and Austria.

Entrytill the marketing, data collection, membership, CCTV and front of house till system from Idscan was the star of the Show at the Vegas Bar show, with queues of interested customers eager to see the latest product release from IDScan.

Amber Davies from Texas stated: "I love the wristband feature and that your regular customers can enrol biometrically on a scanner, we ordered three systems straight away at the show and can’t wait for them to be shipped".

Tamlyn Thompson, Idscan Biomterics Managing Director commented: "This is my first time at the show and it will not be our last. In the US our products have done extremely well and during 2011, we have planned a major expansion into the American market".

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