Two WP were active in parallel during the reporting period, namely WP1 Technological Feasibility and WP2 Business Feasibility.
In particular, the main results of this last reporting period include:
WP1: Previous to this Project Piemacs has had developed a working prototype of the finger print scanner DIGITUS provided an opportunity for developing a lab scale demonstrator with small foot print and portable. We had two goals in mind for this planning. First, a small and portable system would enable us to present our technology to potential investors and secondly, we could explore an small footprint electronics that is also scalable for higher volume production.
WP2: An analysis of the key system requirements has been carried out, to provide Piemacs with quantitative data on the specification that the final product must have in order to be competitive in the market.
The specifications, in terms of resolution, sensing area, False Reject Rate (FRR), False Accept Rate (FAR), grey-level quantization, geometric accuracy, input/output linearity, signal-to-noise ratio and fingerprint grey range have been used by Piemacs to validate the demonstrator and to identify the most viable business case.
A detailed analysis of the application scenarios of Digitus was carried out, including law enforcement and public security, border and migration control, civil identification, healthcare applications, physical and logical accesses.
The analysis allowed us to identify the logical access application as the most promising option to enter the market.
Following the identification of the potential value delivered by the Digitus technology, we have analyzed the market potential and the competitive scenario, we developed the business model, and we prepared a 5 years business plan to guide the further development of the technology.
