I suggest to make this message a support ticket for UPEK here: http://www.upek.com/support/customersupport/form/default.asp
Maybe they wake up and open their API so someone can complete the upekts driver. - Regards Wolfgang Ullrich e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network administrators first choice: N-View, THE network monitor! http://www.n-view.net More good software wanted? Look here: http://www.pdfserver.net (A Network PDF Server Appliance) > We've got this scenario we want to develop fingerprint reading code for: > > * Multiple low-end PCs, each with a USB fingerprint reader attached. > For ease of development, all PCs will be the same hardware, run the same > Linux and run the same fingerprint driver/app software. Similarly, all > fingerprint readers will be identical hardware. PCs will be such a low > spec that software image comparison is probably not advisable, but we > could go that route if there's no hardware comparison is available. > > * The number of people using the fingerprint readers across the PCs > could rise as high as 100 or more and it's likely we'd take at least > two prints (e.g. thumb and a finger) per person. > > * Enrolment should be available on *any* reader and only need to be done > once overall (i.e. not on every PC/reader), with the image/template > retrieved distributable to the other PCs (i.e. the software driver or > the fingerprint reader hardware needs to do one-to-many comparison, > potentially for up to 200 prints in one go and have enrolments > from other units "uploadable" to it). > > With low spec PCs, I suspect comparing images of a scanned print with > up to 200 other images would take a long time (10 seconds or more?) - > too long for someone waiting to be verified, so I feel a hardware > comparison solution would be the best. > > The UPEK Eikon reader looked promising, but seems to fail on a couple > of points: > > * The Linux driver only does one-to-one comparison and even the > Windows driver claims to only do a max of one-to-21. > > * There is no clear indication whether the unit can be programmed > with previous enrolment templates (200 bytes of data I believe) > taken from another Eikon reader. From what the page at > http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Upekts suggests, it seems that > you have to put the unit into verification mode, manually swipe > and it just does a 1-to-1 comparison with a single print stored > in the unit (with no clue as to whether the only way to get that > stored print into the unit is to enrol it manually or not). > I could be wrong on this point though... > > I would have thought that in a small/medium business that has multiple > exits/entrances to a building (we want to do this for a clock in/out > system, rather than a PC login or door access system) and wants to > use fingerprint readers at all exits/entrances, then the above > scenario would be quite common. For cost reasons, we want to keep > each fingerprint reader under $200 and don't want to pay for expensive > SDKs either, but my gut feeling tells me that only "industrial" > fingerprint readers will meet our requirements. > > Ideally, we'd like to look at hardware supported by the fprint project > first, because we'll be coding it in Linux (Windows is not an option before > you ask). Does anyone know of a sub-$200 USB fingerprint reader that has > Linux support and fits our criteria? I've been Googling around without > much luck so far :-( > > Richard K. Lloyd, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Connect Internet Solutions, WWW: http://www.connectinternetsolutions.com/ > First Floor, Faraday House, > Liverpool Digital, 360 Edge Lane, > Liverpool, > Merseyside, UK. L7 9NJ > > > > -- > This e-mail (and any attachments) is private and confidential. If you have > received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it > from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way > nor act in reliance on it. > > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, > except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Connect > Internet Solutions Ltd. This e-mail and any attachments are believed to be > virus free but it is the recipient's responsibility to ensure that they are. > > Connect Internet Solutions Ltd > (A company registered in England No: 04424350) > Registered Office: Faraday House, Liverpool Digital, Edge Lane, > Liverpool, L7 9NJ > Telephone: +44 (0) 151 282 4321 > Fax: +44 (0) 151 282 4322 > VAT registration number: 758 2838 85 > _______________________________________________ > fprint mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint > _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
