Overview
IDesia’s key innovation is two-fold. First and foremost, the company’s BDS™ technology uniquely utilizes heart beat analysis and interpretation, relying on the scientific fact that while individual heartbeats may appear similar, they conceal individually unique information. The technology extracts this information via proprietary signal processing and patented, state-of-the-art pattern recognition algorithms, enabling fast and reliable user authentication.
Unlike most biometric technologies, which rely on scanned images to enroll and identify people, IDesia’s BDS™ technology is based on intrinsic bio-signals acquired by the mere touch of small conductive sensor surfaces, allowing effortless and highly reliable user interaction.
IDesia’s technological innovation is further underscored in that its offering is not limited to a single application, but is in fact designed as enabling infrastructure for a broad range of user identity-aware solutions, combining biometric authentication, and – initially –consumer healthcare, well-being and fitness applications. In the company’s initial application offering, the very same signal processing and pattern recognition used to identify users and authorize access to personal computing devices is also used to analyze and aggregate raw heartbeat data to determine a health baseline, ultimately providing consumers with awareness and the ability to positively influence heart rate and stress levels.
Technology Advantages
For OEM device manufacturers and system integrators, BDS™ technology presents the following advantages:
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High performance – with simple and intuitive operation requiring no special expertise, BDS™ sensors provide high success rates, with minimal false reject incidence. |
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Clear differentiation via seamless integration of biometric authentication with consumer healthcare – IDesia’s is the only offering on the market capable of supporting both biometric authentication and heart-beat analysis-based consumer healthcare, well-being and fitness applications. BDS™ technology establishes users’ health baseline and aggregates their heart rate data over time via a single set of sensors, even as they effortlessly and reliably log into their personal computing devices. No other vendor offers this “all-in-one” biometric functionality. |
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High user compliance – IDesia’s BDS™ technology offers unparalleled ease of use, producing truly compelling and captivating user experience, and enabling users to measure and improve their health and stress levels ad-hoc, with little to no effort. Devices featuring this technology are therefore highly likely to generate increased user demand. |
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Modest cost – eliminating the need for electro-optics, BDS™ sensor ASIC & firmware bundles are available at relatively modest per-unit cost in volume production. |
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Form factor – BDS™ sensors are comprised of layered conductive contacts, smaller by far than any existing biometric sensors. In fact, they are as small as they are durable, and can easily be incorporated into any compact device, including even thin smart cards. |
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Ultra-low power consumption – BDS™ requires very low power and is ideal for use in any power usage-sensitive handheld device. |
