Business Objectives and Values

Mission Statement

The BioAPI Consortium was formed to develop a widely available and widely accepted API that will serve for various biometric technologies. The intent is to:

• Work with industry biometric solution developers, software developers, and system integrators to leverage existing standards to facilitate easy adoption and implementation.
• Develop an OS independent standard.
• Make the API biometric independent.
• Support a broad range of applications.

Implementation of the BioAPI will enable:

• Rapid development of applications employing biometrics
• Flexible deployment of biometrics across platforms and operating systems
• Improved ability to exploit price performance advances in biometrics
• Enhanced implementation of multiple biometric alternatives (fingerprint, voice, face, iris, etc.)

The BioAPI will enable these business benefits by providing:

• Simple application interfaces
• Standard access methods to biometric functions, algorithms, and devices
• Robust biometric data management and storage
• Standard methods of managing biometric data and technology types
• Support for biometric verification and identification in distributed computing environments

Implementation of BioAPI will provide value to:

• Industry security administrators
• System Integrators and value added resellers
• Application developers
• End users of biometric technologies

Steering Committee

The Consortium has a seven member Steering Committee, elected annually, consisting of:

• Cathy Tilton, Chair (Daon)
• Jim Cambier, Treasurer
• Steve Vinsik, Secretary (Unisys)
• Fernando Podio (NIST)
• Colin Soutar (Bioscrypt)
• Manny Novoa (Compaq)
• Mark Stafford (Infineon)