Description
The CarMen project addresses the challenges of managing biometrics "on the move" at border crossings.
The issues to date are :
- poor quality of live biometric data
- lack of time to read the electronic passport.
To date, fully automatic biometric border control solutions, even with authorized stopping, are currently only deployed for pedestrians in controlled environments. CarMen will offer biometric solutions for non-stop border control, suitable for both pedestrians and vehicles, in uncontrolled environmental conditions. Passenger authentication is a two-step process:
- travelers' biometric data (face, iris, periocular) are stored securely in their smartphones, thanks to a DTC (Digital Traveller Credential) ;
- biometric data is securely transferred from the DTC to the border authority infrastructure, and compared with biometric data collected live as the traveler passes through the border checkpoint.
Objectifs
The aim of the project is to develop an infrastructure to facilitate border crossings for users (buses, pedestrians, cars), while maintaining security levels. This involves managing the biometrics of people on the move.
Partners
Main teacher-researchers involved
Project Director
Thibaut DELERUYELLE
Co-director of R&D and Business Manager
Ghislain OUDINET
Co-director of R&D and Business Manager
Amaury AUGUSTE
Teacher-researcher
Belmar GARCIA-GARCIA
Teacher-researcher
Florian SANANES
Teacher-researcher
Benoît SOLOCH
Teacher-researcher
More details
The first work undertaken by Yncréa Méditerranée concerned the choice of the operating frequency and the EMC constraints. The figure below shows two graphs which allowed us to select the working frequency as well as the powers emitted in the neighbouring frequency ranges.
Based on these results, various prototypes were produced in collaboration with the project partners on its prototypes in crea Méditerranée carried out simulator modelling to predict behaviour and provide solutions.
The current modelling focuses on the losses in the transmission lines as well as the coupling that may occur between the remote feed antennas. The work that will take place in the remainder of phase 2 of the project will focus on the interaction that transmit antennas may have with the heating circuit but also on the optimization of the coupling between the transmit antenna and the secondary antennas. The figure below shows a modeling campaign on the coupling study between the antennas (top picture) and also on the power dissipation when all antennas are fed (bottom picture).
The project is innovative because it concerns a set of modular electrical strips intended to be associated with control components to form a system with several functions, in particular a heating function by Joule effect, a function of energy and data transmission by an electromagnetic channel.
There are solutions for heating coatings, solutions for electrically powering devices without contact and solutions for communication between devices. But there is no solution to realize these 3 tasks together.
Results obtained
Project in progress
