BioUptime

Just released: Best Practices in Biometrics Performance Monitoring Programs

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:33 +0000

It all started, back in 2002, as an ambitious master’s thesis project performed by the co-founders of Optimum Biometric Labs and presented at the Biometric Identification short course at the UCLA Extension held by Dr. James L. Wayman.

Almost 10 R&D years later in a convergence area between several IT disciplines (e.g. biometrics, application performance monitoring, event correlation and analysis), Optimum Biometric Labs packages and releases its know-how and experience in this Best Practices in Biometrics Performance Monitoring Programs.

This Best Practices is concerned with the use of standards, methods, processes, frameworks, and IT tools to support end-users’ and businesses’ expectations associated with Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Performance of biometric-based verification and identification systems and applications.

Biometrics Performance Monitoring (BPM) is using real-time data to detect, diagnose, report, and recover issues, or potential issues, in order to ensure that end-customers’ business goals and requirements are met or exceeded.

“We want to celebrate our 10 years progress in Biometrics Performance Monitoring by sharing our know-how with the biometric industry and the end-user community. I think the time is finally right to raise the awareness and bring focus in this important (but until now unclear) area because customers in the market for biometrics should be demanding higher quality of biometrics systems, applications, and services (in terms of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Performance) while keeping the operational costs (such as downtime, maintenance, malfunctions) at a minimum.”, says Babak Goudarzi Pour co-author of this work, CEO and a BPM Evangelist at Optimum Biometric Labs.

Dedicated Web Portal

For the purpose of world-wide dissemination of and collaboration in this Best Practices, Optimum Biometric Labs has launched a dedicated web portal where the Best Practices document and a number of useful supporting material can be found: www.BiometricsPerformanceMonitoring.Org

Creating a new product category

With introduction of this Best Practices, Optimum Biometrics Labs wants to formally create a new category of products called Biometrics Performance Monitoring (BPM) tools. “We haven’t invented the concept, but we have developed it along with the first specialized, stand-alone, and off-the-shelf software tool in the market for managing the concept (see BioUptime)”, says Babak Goudarzi Pour.

He further emphasizes: ”We greatly welcome competition and collaboration to expand this opportunity and discipline. In the market place any given biometric deployment is in fact mission critical when it needs to perform its task for its users and business owner; whether that installation is an Automated Border Control system or a biometric school lunch system”.

New On-Site Course, Book yours at BCC 2011

In conjunction with this release the company now offers this Best Practices as an on-site short course (starting from October 31) which will be brought to customer’s workplace or any preferred location. That this course is on-site has many attractive advantages:

Cost (and time) savings by eliminating participant (e.g. employees) travel expenses
Convenient location access and time flexibility to fit employees’ schedule
Option to have room for a greater number of participants
Allow for open discussions among participants (e.g. employees)

For interested companies and organizations, there are two simple ways to book this lecture:

By meeting us at BCC 2011 in Tampa, FL (September 27-29), we are at Booth # 211 with our partner AFIS and Biometrics Consulting Inc. Babak will go around to meet with vendors and to share a ticket with QR-code for easy access to the lecture’s information page and for registering early interest from smart phones and tablets.
By contacting Babak Goudarzi Pour: Phone (USA): +1 714 609 4815, Phone (Sweden and Europe): +46 707 404 623, Skype: random_precision

About Optimum Biometric Labs: Founded in 2003 in Sweden, Optimum Biometric Labs develops, markets, and sells BioUptime which is a monitoring software for supervising infrastructure reliability, availability, maintainability, and performance. BioUptime monitors critical hardware and software elements and subsystem components such as biometric capture devices, applications, services, usage, and more. The product’s key benefits enable customers to 1) measure, meet and exceed service level agreements 2) reduce maintenance and operational costs, 3) maximize operational performance, reliability, and availability. Optimum Biometric Labs also specializes in biometrics and BioUptime-related professional services.

See us and BioUptime at BCC 2011, Tampa, FL, on September 27 – 29, Booth # 211

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:23:09 +0000

Come and see us at BCC 2011, Biometric Consortium Conference and Technology Expo at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL, USA on September 27 – 29, 2011.

We will demo how BioUptime monitors the enrollment module of BIMS (Biometrics Identification on the Move System). BIMS is a DHS-sponsored project led by AFIS and Biometrics Consulting Inc.

We are at Booth # 211 with our partner AFIS and Biometrics Consulting Inc.

We are looking forward to meet you there.

We just merged our websites into an awesome One and moved away from Google to the fantastic WordPress

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:04:05 +0000

We just merged and redesigned our websites and moved to the more powerful and versatile WordPress.com from the Google environment (Sites and Blogger). We did this in order to simplify and improve usability and accessibility and to prepare for our amazing upcoming launches.

These are the areas we improved:

Simplicity and access: our main company site (optimumbiometrics.com) and our Posts and News site (biouptime.blogspot.com) are now merged and redesigned with our product website (biouptime.com) into just biouptime.com
Social media for you to share: you can now share not only any post but also every page with even more social media tools online
Auto-publicizing to Social media for ourselves: we have activated the awesome feature “Publicize” which connects to our Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook channels and automatically shares our News and Posts
Look and feel: more representative and much better look and feel by utilizing the free WordPress theme Enterprise by StudioPress
Great features and support for mobile browsers: we now have a much better (and more professional) look and feel on the mobile version of biouptime.com than we did before with the limited Google Sites
Easier administration and maintenance for ourselves

And last but not least.. the fantastic WordPress as an expandable platform: ”WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top million websites in the world and 22% of new active websites in the U.S.”, read the TechCrunch article.

Your feedback is very welcome, Thanks!

Enjoy,

Babak Goudarzi Pour

New biometrics use case study report published

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:13:00 +0000

We just published a new biometrics use case study report entitled:
Biometrics Use Cases in Schools (K-12) in the United States,
Desert Sands Unified School District, La Quinta, California

You can find it at Swedish National Biometric Association website:
http://biometricassociation.org/2011/07/11/biometrics-use-cases-in-schools-k-12-in-the-united-states-desert-sands-unified-school-district-la-quinta-california/

Optimum Biometric Labs establishes partnership with AFIS and Biometrics Consulting Inc. in USA and exhibits at BCC 2009

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:57:00 +0000

The Swedish company Optimum Biometric Labs (OBL) establishes partnership with the US-based Biometric and Identity Management specialist company AFIS and Biometrics Consulting Inc. (ABC). With presence and offices both in Washington D.C. in the East Coast and Newport Beach California in the West Coast ABC is now the non-exclusive BioUptime US distributor and representative in the United States. Apart from the geographical coverage advantages, ABC has an extensive vendor-independent experience, making them an optimum partner to OBL. Dr. Ben Bavarian, CEO of ABC, was the leading force in moving Motorola/Printrak to an industry leading position with his initiatives in business development, R&D, and product strategy and recent consulting work for more than a dozen companies in Biometrics industry. “We are proud to work with Dr. Ben Bavarian as our business and technical lead in the United States. He is a respected expert in the industry and we feel confident our teaming up with ABC will improve serving our customers. Also, close working and knowledge of the vendors of ABC is in perfect harmony with OBL’s monitoring product BioUptime, which is designed and built to monitor operational health and performance of all types of biometric devices and components from any vendor in the market.”, says Babak Goudarzi Pour, CEO of OBL.

“For medium to large scale Biometrics Identification System deployments with multiple biometric capture devices and geographically distributed points of enrollment and verification, the Service Level Agreements program line items, and operational monitoring of the devices and services is a key area of focus for customers and vendors. OBL BioUptime, modular, ready and easy to integrate product is the best answer introduced to the market at the a very critical and right time. The Biometric System Integrators, the vendors now have a very effective way to support and answer the customer questions on the system operational readiness and performance,” says Dr. Bavarian.
The two companies will exhibit at the 2009 Biometric Consortium Conference and Technology Expo (BCC) at booth number 115. The BCC will be held September 22 – 24, 2009 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida U.S.A.

For more information please contact:
Babak Goudarzi Pour, CEO, Optimum Biometric Labs AB,
Mobile (Sweden): +46 707 404 623, Mobile (USA): 714-609-4815
Email: babak@optimumbiometrics.com

Ben Bavarian, CEO, AFIS and Biometrics Consulting Inc.
Office Phone: 949-644-8195, Mobile Phone: 949-933-8191
Email: ben.bavarian@afisandbiometrics.com

Seeking Value Added Resellers in the US

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:02:00 +0000

We have made several trips to Washington D.C. and met with prime contractors, system integrators as well as the end-customers within the US Government. Due to the excellent responses and potential sales opportunities, we are now seeking Value Added Resellers in the US-market for our monitoring system BioUptime.

BioUptime Developer Program in progress

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0000

A new BioUptime Developer Program is being developed to support partners to easily integrate and apply the monitoring functionalities to biometric devices, services and applications.

Interview with Army Technology

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:03:00 +0000

Army Technology interviewed OBL CEO, Babak Goudarzi Pour, on Automated Border Control (ABC) systems.

Click here to view the interview:

http://www.army-technology.com/features/feature51333

Keynote at the Border Security Conference in Warsaw

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:04:00 +0000

OBL CEO, Babak Goudarzi Pour, adressed ”Integration of Biometric Technologies for Border Processing” in a keynote at SMi’s Border Security conference in Warsaw, Poland.

Click here to view and download the slides

Interview with Assa Abloy

Babak Goudarzi Pour — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:05:00 +0000

Published interview with the global leader in door opening solutions Assa Abloy on “Biometrics developing into popular solutions for increased security” (in Swedish)

Click here to view the interview:

http://www.assa.sg/privat/index.php?show_news_id=13378