Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: LynuxWorks
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 April 2003
RTOS is preferred for biometric identification
The LynxOS real-time operating system has been chosen as a preferred software platform for Cogent's high-performance biometric identification products and services.
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The LynxOS real-time operating system has been chosen as a preferred software platform for Cogent's high-performance biometric identification products and services. LynxOS will provide the high levels of determinism and interoperability required by Cogent's unique security systems for customers in law enforcement, civil government, and commercial markets. Cogent's products perform biometric comparisons of a person's specific physiological or behavioural characteristics through a process of image flow processing, data flow computing, and information fusion.
This process is used in applications such as finger and palm print authentication and verification systems, and requires a high level of determinism to ensure reliable and timely results.
The LynxOS kernel not only provides hard real-time determinism, but also a Posix-, Unix- and Linux-compatible API that allows for the interoperability necessary to rapidly integrate Cogent's systems into a wide variety of existing security infrastructures.
Cogent customers are then able to more quickly build and deploy their systems into high-security environments.
"We now live in a world where security systems are much more prevalent, and much more complex", said Henry Xue, Chief Engineer of Cogent.
"LynxOS is a very reliable hard real-time operating system.
We are very happy to have selected it for one of our current products".
"Complex security systems are a perfect application for LynxOS, where real-time performance and reliability are absolutely essential", said Bob Morris, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for LynuxWorks.
"LynuxWorks is proud to be entering the burgeoning biometric security market with a leading provider like Cogent, whose identification solutions represent some of the most cutting-edge technologies in the industry".
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