Reasons for Choosing Futronic Products over the others

Indonesia Version

1. Futronic scanners are highly durable and maintenance-free
• The Futronic fingerprint sensor using the optical technology is designed for its ruggedness and solid engineering, as well as its virtually indestructible sensor prism, which is made of a very hard quartz-like material that resists scratches, stress and corrosion.
• Futronic sensors have been tested under extreme conditions and have been proven to perform in high-traffic, outdoor and other rough environments. They resist exposure to:

1. Subfreezing, arid, and tropical climates

2. Electrostatic discharge (ESD)

3. Impact, vibration, and shock

4. Scratches to sensor prism even from sharp

5. Contaminants and corrosives such as sweat, dirt, oil and cleaning agents

• Futronic sensors do not use any coatings or film on the glass surface, which are required by many semiconductor-based sensors and competitive optical sensors in the market in order to protect the delicate sensor components or to improve contact with the skin. Such coatings may be vulnerable to scratches and corrosion that can degrade the performance of the sensor over time and cause unexpected replacement or repair costs in the long run.
• For the Futronic sensor, the optic parts are tightly assembled so that if the sensors are ever dropped, there is no need for re-calibration, which is often necessary for smaller form-factor optical sensors that use an intricate arrangement of mirrors or lenses.

2. Futronic sensors are very accurate and provide high quality images
• The sensor gives high accuracy rates thus minimizing the false acceptance and also the false rejection rates. This is very important as high false acceptance rate means risk of wrong identification and high false rejection rate will lower the throughput thus slowing the access control.
• Futronic design yields practically distortion-free, high-contrast images from which data points are used for enrollment and matching.
• High quality images mean greater precision, less false rejection, less false acceptance, and better overall performance.

3. Complete product support from Futronic

o Futronic is one of the few biometric companies that manufactures the full range of fingerprint products from the most critical sensor (optical using glass prism) to full range of USB based scanners and Access Control/Time Attendance units.

o Furthermore, Futronic supports the full SDK (Software Development Kit) to allow Software Integrators to use the Fingerprint scanner into their own software and develop new applications such as Enterprise logon, Web logon and physical authentication.

4. Futronic products are used all over the world

o Hundred of thousands have been deployed all over for the real-world use from USB based scanners for national level elections to office and factory acces control with time attendance, to full estate building access control management.

o Futronic customers come from over 30 different countries and include Fortune 500 companies, leading security and biometric companies, original equipment manufacturers, corporations, and government, financial, educational, and health care organizations.

5. Futronic expanding product range

o Futronic fingerprint product family continues to expand with customers feedback and new market requirement and applications. The latest product is the F525 which is a USB based fingerprint scanner with Mifare card reader and writer. This will allow the software developers to develop applications that need additional level of security such as card and fingerprint access in financial applications and high security networks.

o To expand the usage of fingerprint biometric applications it necessary to provide various alternatives in fingerprint based hardware and Futronic is certainly focused in this area by constantly introducing new products and modules.

Comparison of Futronic Optical Sensor vs Optical vs Semiconductor Sensor

	Futronic Optical Sensors	Other Optical Sensors	Semiconductor Sensors
Sensor Type	Optical (glass prism)	Optical (glass + mirrors)	Semiconductor or Chip (Capacitive)
Sensor Surface	Just glass, no maintenance and special treatment required	Some have layer of film or coating on the scanner surface. Subject to wear and tear which shorten the product life,	Have special surface treatments, including ESD and protective coatings. Coating maybe uneven and wear out over time thereby degrading the performance and shorten product life.
Durability	Uses Scratch-proof, tampered glass prism which as hard as quartz Shock resistant — no moving parts ESD resistant up to 8KV Work with dry, wet and oily fingers Work well in outdoor, high traffic and rough environments Uses IR(lnfra-Read) for sensor lighting — avoid unnecessary attention and operate under all lighting conditions	Use original glass with coating, subject to scratches Mirrors aligned affected under vibration Lower ESD Unable to function properly with water or oil presence Subject to wear and tear on the coating which shorten product life Uses LED (red,green or blue) which is always ON. Attract attention and shorten LED life.	Can corrodes easily with repeated usage and exposure Micro-cracks can occur under shock and vibration Susceptible to damage by ESD usually 2-3KV Cannot work with wet and oily fingers due to change in capacitance Silicon chip/sensor are fragile and easily damage under high usage from external impact and scratches Silicon sensor easily affected by light, temperature thus causing higher rejection rate.
Imaging Area, Resolution and Size	Large imaging area 24 X 16mm, High resolution of 500dpi and image resolution is 150K pixels	Similar imaging area and resolution	Smaller imaging area and resolution as larger area is difficult to maintain and higher cost
Power Consumption	Low power consumption average is <100mw>	High power consumption as the LED is always ON	Lower power consumption as it is silicon based
Cost Effectiveness	No maintenance and longer product life	Some maintenance on the coating and shorter product life	Lower initial cost but high maintenance cost due to replacement of sensor and higher downtime cost