Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School

[pisshead]

more unconstitutuional federal control and funding for police state in schools...it's soooo conservative...innit?

Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School
TechWeb.com | January 23, 2006
By Laurie Sullivan


When a parent arrives to pick up their child at one of three grade schools in the Freehold Borough School District, they'll need to look into a camera that will take a digital image of their iris. That photo will establish positive identification to gain entrance into the school.

Funding for the project, more than $369,000, was made possibly by a school safety grant through the National Institute of Justice, a research branch of the U.S. Department of Justice. "The idea is to improve school safety for the children," said Phil Meara, superintendent, Freehold Borough School District, on Monday. "We had a swipe-card system that operated the doors, but the technology was obsolete."

Installation of the iris technology began in October. The system is now operational after two months of testing. The Teacher-Parent Authorization Security System (T-PASS), a software application developed by Eyemetric Identity Systems, was installed on the front office computers at each of the three schools.

It took software engineers about nine months to develop the platform. Two technicians were hired by the school board to provide IT support for maintenance and updates to the platform. School participation in the 18-month study is voluntary.

Parents who have children that attend any of the three schools in the district, teachers who instruct students attending classes at the locations, and staff employees are assigned access rights. Each child can have up to four adults approved in the system.

The platform provides entry-access controls, visitor management and the capability to scan a driver's license from 50 states and automatically import the information into the database. "The file size created when the camera takes a picture of the iris to match it against records in the database is about 512 kilobytes," said Raymond Bolling, co-founder of Eyemetric Identity Systems, a spin-off of New Jersey Business Systems Inc., which specialized in biometrics identification.

The system takes a digital photograph of the iris, the color portion of the eye, each time a parent, teach or administrative and school employee gains access to the school. "The algorithm can map out up to 242 unique points in the iris," Bolling said. "A good fingerprint patch is anywhere from seven to 22 points."

The algorithms for iris scanning are licensed through a LG Electronics from Iridian Technologies Inc. The software keeps a log and digital record or any visitor entering the school, which replaces a four-column paper spreadsheet.

Global biometric revenues are projected to grow from $2.1 billion in 2006 to $5.7 billion in 2010, which includes iris scanning, according International Biometric Group. Iris scanning is emerging, albeit slowly. The research firm said iris recognition revenues are estimated to exceed $250 million by 2008.

Eyemetric developed and deployed the iris recognition system using IrisAccess iris recognition cameras and software from LG Electronics, and Tailgate Detection Alarm Recording (T-DAR) anti-tailgating system from Newton Security. The hardware supporting the application is Hewlett-Packard & Co.'s ProLiant DL140 servers, along with HP dx5150 desktop PCs with Advanced Micro Device (AMD) processor, and Access Point for wireless networking from ProCurve Networking.

pisshead Reviewed by pisshead on 01-25-2006. Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School more unconstitutuional federal control and funding for police state in schools...it's soooo conservative...innit? Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School TechWeb.com | January 23, 2006 By Laurie Sullivan When a parent arrives to pick up their child at one of three grade schools in the Freehold Borough School District, they'll need to look into a camera that will take a digital image of their iris. That photo will establish positive identification to gain entrance into the Rating: 5

[Psycho4Bud]

Mother fuckers trying to take away the rights of perverts and disgruntled non-custodial parents of taking children from the school where they are assumed to be safe!!! DAMN NEO-CONS!!!

[eg420ne]

Naw dude I see this shit as Orwellian and Brave New World sort of like a high-tech fascism form.. They can say its for the children all they want.....just like the cameras in the restrooms....Its for the children, what about the children ooooooooh the poor children, thats how they sell it by saying its for the children....LoL

[Psycho4Bud]

They can say its for the children all they want.....just like the cameras in the restrooms....

Cameras in the bathrooms wasn't to protect the children from perverts. It was about perverts wanting to watch the children!

[eg420ne]

Ya perverts working inside the school system, whos going to watch the perverts that work inside the schools, cant keep them out..

[Psycho4Bud]

Ya perverts working inside the school system, whos going to watch the perverts that work inside the schools, cant keep them out..

If only I could have got that lucky!!! :thumbsup:

[scobbie]

Naw dude I see this shit as Orwellian and Brave New World sort of like a high-tech fascism form.. They can say its for the children all they want.....just like the cameras in the restrooms....Its for the children, what about the children ooooooooh the poor children, thats how they sell it by saying its for the children....LoL

the problem is people are buying it

[Psycho4Bud]

the problem is people are buying it

The problem isn't that people are buying it but that some refuse to acknowledge the problem. When it comes to the kids, better safe than sorry!

Could you imagine going to pick up your kid from school only to find out that a ficticious relative was just there?


But how many American children are actually abducted each year? Numbers as high as one or two million are routinely cited in the media. John Walsh, host of the television show America's Most Wanted, has testified before Congress about this issue, and has placed the annual total number of abducted children at more than 1.5 million, adding that "we don't have a clue what happens to over 50,000 of them," and that "this country is littered with mutilated, decapitated, raped and strangled children." Mr. Walsh, who has undergone the tragedy of his own son Adam being abducted and killed in a case that received national attention, joined Janet Reno in officiating last year's ceremony.
http://www.stats.org/record.jsp?type=oped&ID=95

[eg420ne]

CONFORMIST

[VoidLivesOn]

Why don't they just have more teachers patrolling the kid pick up "zone".So when a parent comes to get there child, obviously the child will acknowledge if the being is reconizable as a relative or not.Thats what they do at my little brothers school.Works pretty well, and they still have $369,000 for it unlike this school in Jersey.MAybe these measures are a little extreme? I mean I'm a little young but if I were picking up my kid from school and they had me doing shit you would be doing at the pentagon dosn't that seem a little obscure?