NEC Corp., a Japanese multinational company specialising in information technology products, says it has won an order from Macau’s immigration authorities for an automated fingerprint identification system.
Under the ten-year contract worth approximately three billion yen (USD33.3 million) signed with the Macau Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau, the biometric authentication system will start operating in July 2009. The system will also have the capability to be upgraded for face recognition technology at a later date, says NEC.
The technology will work in conjunction with 147 automatic gates to be placed at four immigration points.
Immigration officials using mobile monitoring devices can supervise the fingerprint system, which the company says is designed to better check identities and speed up immigration procedures.
NEC adds it has already installed 14 such biometric identification systems at immigration points in Asia outside Japan.
