Award Data

The huge growth in mobile industry including smartphones and tablets, wearable devices, and the internet of things, caused an explosion in the number of sensor technologies and sensory data. This growth was accompanied by huge leaps in wireless communication technologies in term of speed and geographical coverage. When a highly-trained first responder arrives at an incident scene, an array of comm ...

Lightweight portable biometrics tools are needed to accurately and rapidly screen and manage the identities if individuals at the scene of an incident. Such tools are preferably not dependent on local infrastructure, which may be compromised, and should operate in both land and maritime environments. The output of this phase II project will be a prototype portable biometrics screening device.