Gemalto acquires Green Bit, enhancing biometric capture capabilities

The acquisition is expected to accelerate and enhance Gemalto’s biometric capture capabilities.

The combination of fingerprint scanners and software solutions allows Thales-owned Gemalto to provide a wide range of in-house biometric technologies to better support automated fingerprint identification across numerous industries.

Gemalto has more than 200 government digital identity and data protection programs, helping more than 30,000 enterprises worldwide, according to the release.

About Green Bit

Green Bit Biometric Systems S.p.A.,  headquartered  in  Turin  (Italy),  designs,  develops  and  markets  a  complete product line of FBI certified fingerprint scanner starting from single finger, rolled, 10-print up to palm Livescan systems. Green Bit is in the market space since 1997 with a long track record of successful installations worldwide. To date Green Bit  is  the  only  100% European  Livescan  manufacturer  providing  a  full  product  portfolio  for Value Added applications and the Law Enforcement and Civil ID market.

Image quality, usability, easy integration into third party applications and overall quality control guaranteeing for highest reliability is paramount for Green Bit. This quality driven approach is mirrored in our complete product line starting from single finger Livescans as the Dacytscan26/26i, the rolled and dual flats Livescan Dactyscan40i, our 10-print Livescan Dacyscan84c up to our high-end Palm Livescan the Multiscan527. Our product line allows our partners to efficiently and affordably address all possible application scenarios involving fingerprint biometrics may it be mass enrolment for large ID programs, background checks, criminal booking or any other identification scenario. Recently Green Bit launched the brand new DactyID family with fingerprint anti-spoofing software feature. The DactyID family has been designed having in mind the fast expanding market of digital transactions and added value e-services, such as: Banking, Healthcare, Commerce, etc. It is a compact single-finger FAP 20 FBI/PIV livescan, offering a built-in patented liveness finger detection system