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You have to move from your existing facility to a new one, and you need to do it over the weekend, with no down time for your employees. You have clients that are depending on orders filled, and you need to see that process not impeded. Your facility has mechanical equipment and machinery that is essential for your operation, and it needs to be disconnected, moved, and set up in an orderly fashion to insure high productivity. In addition, you only have the weekend to make this happen, or else it could cost you clients and business. Who will you contact? This is the type of project the Prism Consulting has done, and can do for clients. All this requires immediate coordination with people for the most efficient operations. Our customer’s needs are our objective.

You have a family, and want to build a house. In the process you find out that you are responsible for making road improvements. After several months of the process, and knowing that you have already contracted and seen the construction you’re your new home begin, you find out that "road improvements" are now defined as building a new road and making it comply with State standards. Who are you going to contact? You have never built a road before, and you have a wife, small children, a full time job, and did not ever plan to be a road builder? This is the type of project that Prism Consulting helps with. We coordinate with local, and state officials to help walk you through the process. It is never the goal to circumvent the process, but to guide you through it as quickly as possible. We will coordinate activities and interact with decision makers for the best and quickest solution. Team work is the objective and always the scope.

Biometric Technology has been in existence for years. It has been implemented in various operations in commercial, government and private sectors. The various forms of biometrics can take the place of pin numbers for ATM cards, keys for access to automobiles, and authentication for access of information. It can be vital for the issue of liability in business and industry. Below is some information on the technology. Prism Consulting provides training on this technology with total solutions for implementing biometrics for your needs.



Voice Security Technology

Voice security technology can be easily inserted into most applications because most applications have embedded processors. This is important because most consumer products must provide the most features for the lowest cost. Adding additional hardware can sometimes make your product non-competitive. Cellular phone technology is an example of such an application.
The diagram below shows the basic hardware used in voice security. The user’s voice is read into the embedded processor through a microphone and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The embedded processor transforms the users voice into templates that can be compared with previously recorded templates of the user’s voice. If the voice security test is passed, the embedded processor enables the product to function. If the voice security test is failed, an indicator (visual or verbal) tells the user to try again.



Figure 1: Required Voice Security Hardware

A cell phone has all of the needed functions given above. All they lack is the voice security algorithm to run on their hardware!

There are several ways that the voice security algorithm could be implemented on a cell phone. One method is to use a power-on enabling function similar to what exists in phones today. Current phones have a security feature when the customer turns on the phone they must enter a Personal Identification Number (PIN) to enable the phone. Instead of a PIN, the embedded processor’s program could be modified to implement the voice security algorithm as shown below.
During power-up sequences, the amount of processing done by the embedded processor is minimal. Most of the time is spent waiting for user input such as keypad entry for the PIN. This time could be used instead to prompt the user for a voice password and monitor the microphone to capture the voice input. Upon receiving the voice input, the embedded processor transforms the data input into a voice template for comparison against the user database. Even the smallest of embedded processors can perform this transform in a time-effective manner to prevent the user from excessive waits during voice validation. If the voice template matches, the phone is then enabled. If the voice template does not match, the user can try again.

All this can be done on the embedded processor that is usually not fully loaded during this time. This application only adds about 4-8 Kbytes of new code to the product. Considering cell phones have games and other toys running on the embedded processor, this will not require any additional parts to be added to the phone.





Application Ideas:

Facility Access: This system can emulate existing peripherals used in access to facilities locations that use scan card or smart card technology.

Computer Access: Speech verification can be used to control access to computers.

Time Clock: When a person comes to work, rather then punch a time clock, speaking into a computerized system can integrate with payroll systems, making it easier to account for activity.

ATM Card: Utilizing speech versus pin numbers decreases administrative costs on ATM cards, and also increases security.

Account Authorization: Account managers have to verify a client prior to giving out personal information on accounts. With speech verification, fraudulent access of information is decreased, and it assures clients and customers that their personal information will be protected.

Developing Technology: You may have applications that can utilize speech verification technology. We have engineers that can design an application to be utilized in many different applications.