“What we’re hoping is that you can do a search function. “We’re a long way off from being able to take a fingerprint and actually enroll it in the FBI database, for example,” he said. When officers plug the device into a computer, they can upload the print to the database for processing.Īpps for fingerprinting exist already, but IAFIS doesn’t accept them because they’re not high-quality and trustworthy enough, Beltz said. However, that involves the officer leaving whatever job they’re doing and taking a suspect to a facility, and in rural areas that can be two to three hours each way.”Īlso currently available and FBI-certified are small boxes with sensors that scan a print and store it locally. “You actually place your fingers on a reader at the fingerprint facility - very high-quality, FBI-certified way to do things. “Sometimes still using the ink, most of the time they’re using the digital readers – quite different from what you can do on a smartphone,” said John Beltz, IT security manager at PSCR and technical lead for mFIT. The challenge came about after members of the Criminal Justice Information Services’ Advisory Policy Board expressed a need for high-quality fingerprints that could interact with the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), a national system for digitally storing, comparing and exchanging fingerprint data that the FBI has maintained since 1999. Specifically, NIST wants innovators to create or improve a smartphone or tablet application that accesses the device’s sensors and captures high-quality digital fingerprint images that can be interpreted by existing fingerprint management systems. The goal of the challenge is to inspire the development of commercial and open source products that could be added to the FirstNet App Ecosystem for first responders to use.
The Mobile Fingerprinting Innovation Technology (mFIT) Challenge is open to innovators in any field who want to submit whitepapers and prototypes for a chance to win awards worth up to $430,000. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Public Safety Communication Research (PSCR) Division is looking for applications and hardware accessories that will allow law enforcement officers capture high-quality fingerprints in the field with a mobile device.
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