IDEX Biometrics ASA, announced a proprietary software platform including a biometric card operating system and applets developed in collaboration with its partners jNet ThingX Corp., a Preferred Security Partner of Infineon Technologies AG. This software platform enables a full turnkey solution for biometric smart cards, reducing the complexity of card manufacturing, accelerating time-to-market, and lowering costs. The IDEX turnkey solution is an extension of jNet's Javelin EMV COS, which is based on Java Card, the open application platform used to secure smart cards. The initial software release has been optimized for use with the differentiated smart card reference design jointly announced earlier this year by IDEX Biometrics and Infineon Technologies. The tight integration of this design enables fingerprint authentication with low latency, high accuracy, and excellent power efficiency.

Full biometrically-authenticated EMV transactions can be completed in approximately 500 milliseconds end to end. The platform solution enables safe and easy user enrollment, secure storage of fingerprint templates, and rapid matching, all without any biometric data ever leaving the card. The COS is fully compliant with GlobalPlatform security standards and EMV interoperability requirements.