Smartmatic Technology and Consulting..

Creating Brilliant, Beneficial Futures
One Application at a Time



The imperative to innovate, the passion to create faster, stronger, better solutions that advance society in significant ways -- These are the forces driving Smartmatic’s R&D and Consulting teams.

They are the world-class professionals who work at expanding the realm of what’s possible. They form the teams that continuously scour the technology landscape in search of the frameworks, methodologies and processes that spark a brilliant new, large-scale, real life application.

An outstanding example of this is the introduction of a state of the art solution for the most vital part of the democratic process – the vote. Born of a client’s need for expert help to overcome a major challenge and delivered by the insight and inspiration of the R&D and Consulting teams, this groundbreaking application has become the most auditable voting technology ever created. As such it has earned the respect of independent electoral observers, international election authorities and political parties on both sides during some of the toughest, most disputed elections.

This award-winning innovation, like all of our solutions, comes from our conviction that consulting is not an exercise in adapting an existing product for different customers’. Rather, we create custom solutions specifically for each client’s individual needs by working alongside them to share the thrilling experience of bringing complex solutions to life. For us the product development cycle does not stop with deployment on site. We consider it complete only when our client begins to reap the benefits of our combined efforts.

If this is the way you’d like to achieve success for your large scale projects, to have your most ambitious plans realized through brilliant technology solutions, contact us now. Or if you recognize the need and require innovative thinking to identify the solution and ground-breaking engineering to create it, call Smartmatic.

Smartmatic Unified Security Platform

The Unified Security Platform (USP) is the comprehensive solution to the serious challenge of ensuring security and safety in even the most difficult environments. This highly flexible and scalable platform can be customized completely for your specific needs right now and as they evolve. That’s how your command of security and safety requirements can keep pace with the growing demands of your responsibilities. Whether it’s your duty to secure and safeguard a banking enterprise, an oil or mineral extraction operation, an airport, or even an entire city, the Smartmatic USP places you at the forefront of operational efficiency.
Consistently effective from first alert to mission accomplished



USP contains all the capabilities necessary to implement tightly integrated security and safety programs for optimum results in a broad range of vertical applications. Its rich feature set and ease of use facilitates mission critical integration of the monitoring, analysis, rapid reaction and response coordination functions involved in end-to-end emergency and disaster management systems.

HOW IT WORKS...
Designed to automate the efficient interaction between networked devices, operators, end users and security appliances, USP is a robust platform that can be applied in a variety of industries and settings. What these have in common are the functional requirements of preventive monitoring, emergency alert, situation analysis, emergency response and performance optimization. That’s why Smartmatic has formulated the ideal combination of hardware, software, operational knowhow and training to serve this functional sequence with one smooth, streamlined and powerful process flow.

Flexibility and Versatility to Fit you Specifically

Because of its command of the essential functions of safety and security, Smartmatic USP presents a high performance solution that can be customized. Whether it’s in an individual oil drilling operation or airport, or the medium size system securing 500 branches of Mexico’s Santander Bank, or the truly large scale Public Emergency System for Caracas (Venezuela) that incorporates the entire city’s emergency response agencies, Smartmatic USP delivers you the power and performance to keep the situation under control.

Smartmatic Identity Management Solutions (SIMS)

Comprehensive Biometric Identity...




Smartmatic Identity Management Solutions (SIMS) is the complete combination of services and technology that enables governments and large corporations to manage personal identity using biometric security. With SIMS’s full-featured solution, a higher level of capability is possible in a wider range of applications. From voter and civil registration to immigration control and national identity projects, SIMS provides, security, efficiency and economy.

Now you can implement secure, reliable identity management programs with confidence:

Full project coverage – SIMS comprises all the technology components and services required for a full-fledged identity management solution involving enrollment, consolidation, duplicate detection, analysis and adjudication, ID production and mining , as well as interfacing with third-party identity point-of-use systems.

Next-generation enrollment equipment – The PARmobile is quite simply the most advanced device for enrollment of people. It’s portable and rugged, designed for optimal use in field applications. And all the essential components are already contained in a single unit to simplify set up and eliminate equipment loss.

Multi-biometric support – Different biometric technologies can be combined to meet special needs and optimize specific processes. This includes iris, fingerprint, face and voice recognition technologies. These can be used in fused mode to maximize accuracy and/or performance.

Information is kept secure – All critical data is captured and stored in a tamper-proof manner, using the industry’s most robust technologies for data security, encryption and integrity.

Adaptable to customer processes – Our technology can be configured to meet the workflow of our customers, from the initial enrollment stage and all the way to the stages of ID production, identity registry maintenance, and points of use.

Leverage legacy systems – We migrate our clients’ existing people registry and complement it with newly collected biographic and biometric information. This very useful service means your project doesn’t always have to start from scratch or duplicate effort.
Based on standards – The systems that make up our technology solution comply with the most widely accepted and respected standards developed by the FBI, NIST, ANSI and ISO/IEC for quality and performance in the biometric capture, storage, matching and data interchange processes. The data quality controls are in place to guarantee all data captured meets the highest levels of quality and integrity.


HOW IT WORKS...

Implementation of the Smartmatic Identity Management Solutions, which involves the careful coordination of technology and people, typically follows this set of steps:
1) Migration: Build a baseline by migrating existing databases and/or digitize existing paper records.
2) Enrollment: Capture a person’s biographic and biometric data ensuring top quality, and store it in a tamper-proof and standards-based data package.
3) Consolidation: Transfer all captured data to a single central location over secure networks or transported on physical storage media.
4) Duplicate detection: Find potential aliases, both biographically and biometrically, within the collected data. Use fused biometric technologies (iris, fingerprint, face, etc.) to maximize accuracy and/or performance.
5) Analysis: Using pre-defined business rules, rule out false positives. Classify unresolved potential aliases and submit them to a trained operator for investigation.
6) Adjudication: Potential alias cases are resolved and marked as valid/invalid records. All unique people records lead to an ID production request.
7) ID Production: Valid people records result in the production of a printed/laminated identity document (cards, passports, etc.) usually under strict security procedures.
8) Delivery: IDs are handed to their owners after verifying their identity using live biometric measurements and biometric info stored in the ID.

This workflow and its details are customized to client needs. For instance, one client may not need migration from a legacy system, while another may require a pre-enrollment process prior to formal enrollment and yet another may not want ID production. We are responsive to the unique needs of each project.

Smartmatic- Auditable Election System - How it works...

Ease of Operation and Security



The flexibility of the SAES platform makes it possible to automate any election in accordance with the legal requirements of the governing electoral agency, the local voting customs and the socio-political factors of the host country.

We place paramount importance on the security and integrity of the entire electoral process. That is we base our system on a series of encryption algorithms that safeguard the collection and transfer of every vote at each of the following verification points:

1. Voting receipt printed on special paper and identified with a random code to ensure the secrecy of the vote;
2. Fixed memory (internal) of every SAES machine;
3. Removable memory of every SAES machine;
4. Station tally from the voting table;
5. The electronic vote transferred to the tallying centers;
6. Electronic act transferred to the tallying centers;
7. The tallying act.

Each of these checkpoints ensures the transparency of the electoral process and together they provide the most complete guaranty available. They offer ample opportunities to pinpoint anomalies, if they occur, and early enough, to prevent them from becoming a big problem.

Comelec plans to tap 80,000 IT personnel for 2010 elections...

Yesterday (July 9, 2010), Comelec Commissioner Rene Sarmiento said at least 80,000 IT personnel are needed to assist board of elections inspectors (BEIs) in the forthcoming polls.

Anticipating the possibility that not enough public school teachers would be able to fill the required staff, the from various government agencies.

He explained that the Comelec is allowed to tap IT-capable persons to be present in each precinct during Election Day.


Only those accredited by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) would be tapped, he added.

Sarmiento said the mechanics of tapping IT people will be up for discussion at the Comelec very soon.

Comelec and the Smartmatic-TIM consortium finally signed the P7.2B poll automation contract at around 5pm today...

The Comelec and the winning consortium pushed through with the contract-signing as the Supreme Court did not issue a temporary restraining order in response to a petition filed by Harry Roque and other lawyers, who alleged that the joint venture failed to conform with several requirements in the bidding.

The Comelec and the Smartmatic-TIM consortium finally signed the P7.2B poll automation contract at around 4:45pm today.
The signing of the 25-page document was delayed for about three hours because of what Comelec SBAC Chairman Ferdinand T. Rafanan called "typographical errors".
The signing of the contract will start the preparations for the first and historic automation program for the Philippines.

Congratulations to SBAC and COMELEC for finally signed the P7.2B poll automation contract.
Godbless and More power to Director Ferdinand T. Rafanan for the effort he shown.

Smartmatic and TIM Reconcilliation

• The dispute has ended. Smartmatic and its Filipino partner, Total Information Management (TIM), were able to iron out their differences over the control of funds for the P11.3-billion poll automation project after a three-hour meeting Friday.

• "It's a go for poll automation. Smartmatic and TIM are right now signing their joint venture incorporation papers," Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo told reporters.

• By next Friday, July 10, after submitting their incorporation papers to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the companies are expected to sign the P7.2-billion contract with the Comelec, according to Melo.

• Again congratulations to COMELEC and SBAC..

• GODBLESS AND MORE POWER...