For å sette det hele i et perspektiv og sammenheng her: https://www.idexbiometrics.com/idex-biometrics-and-zwipe-collaborate-on-zwipe-pay-one-platform/
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Har utviklet seg som tenkt denne, tror fremdeles på noen nyheter før jul som setter ordentlig fyr på denne.
Gikk fra omtrent dagens nivå til over 7.00 på litt over 2mdr for ca 2 år siden, er det grunn til å tro på en reprise? Alt er vel mulig, markedet virker dessuten mer modent nå.
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Ja det er to store forskjeller
- teknologien er klar og de har fått ned kostnadene drastisk
- bankene driver nå å reklamerer for dette . Så nå er det ikke bare Idex som sier at dette kommer
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IDEX Biometrics to Present at the LD Micro Main Event Virtual Conference, 15 Dec 2020
Interessant stoff fra en blogg på HO.
Why is IDEX TrustedBio the only fingerprint sensor that can work directly with existing SEs while our competitor’s silicon sensors require a BioSE or an extra MCU and separate PMU? Let’s investigate why a BioSE is needed by silicon sensors, but not needed when paired with TrustedBio. There are three major capabilities that distinguish a BioSE from a standard SE – memory, energy harvesting/sharing, and processor speed.
Silicon sensors capture a fingerprint image which is then transferred to another MCU for biometric processing. Depending on the sensor size and resolution, the 8-bit greyscale image is in the range of 14K to 20K bytes. SEs have two types of memory, flash memory which is a relatively slow permanent type of storage for the software program and fingerprint templates and RAM which is used for data during program execution. Standard SEs have plenty of flash, but only about 10K to 20K bytes of RAM.
For an SE to work directly with a silicon sensor there needs to be enough RAM to accept the entire fingerprint image AND the biometric matcher AND the normal SE functions such as the card operating system and POS terminal communication. For standard SEs there is typically much less than half of the RAM available for biometric processing. As one can see from the math, getting it all to fit is a problem and explains why all Gen 2 cards have a separate MCU.
I manage a software engineering department and I know how ingenuous software engineers are at optimizing memory usage. However, no executive wants to start a new biometric card project and be told, it “might” fit. Particularly when there will be new features and requirements such as anti-spoof detection that will undoubtedly require more software and memory. Moreover, the techniques used to reduce memory usage often result in execution speed penalties.
On the other hand, IDEX TrustedBio needs very little RAM on the SE. TrustedBio runs biometric feature extraction using its own MCU with its own RAM creating a data template that is less than 750 bytes, more than 20 times smaller than the original image. These few hundred bytes are encrypted and transferred to the SE for a secure match against enrolled templates. Current generation SEs have enough RAM to accept encrypted feature data, but not the entire fingerprint image. One extra benefit, data transfer is much faster, 1 ms vs 20 ms since only a few hundred bytes are transferred. A second extra benefit is that this method is even more secure since the fingerprint image never leaves the sensor, only a small encrypted data template which makes it impossible to recreate the original fingerprint.
The 2nd important capability is energy harvesting and energy sharing. Contactless cards have an antenna that is used to harvest power when near a card reader. Energy harvesting and sharing is done by a PMU, Power Management Unit. There are 4 options to power a biometric card.
Option 1: A separate PMU chip that connects to the antenna and powers both the SE and sensor. This is a typical configuration for Gen 2 biometric cards but adds cost and complexity.
Option 2: SE connects to the antenna, harvests the energy and then provides power to the sensor through a power pin. Contactless SEs can harvest power for themselves, but few can also share power with the sensor. Full BioSEs support this option, an important difference with standard SEs.
Option 3: SE and the sensor both connect to the antenna and harvest their own energy. They coordinate and take turns using the power. TrustedBio is the only sensor that can do this.
Option 4: Sensor connects to the antenna, harvests the energy and provides power back to the SE via a power pin. TrustedBio is the only sensor that can do this.
Silicon sensors are unable to harvest their own energy so options 1 and 2 are the only viable options and just like the problem with memory, there are very few SEs that can harvest energy and share it with the sensor. On the other hand, TrustedBio has its own integrated PMU and supports all the options without any additional components.
The 3rd topic is MCU speed. The time to run the biometric matcher algorithm is directly correlated to processor speed and is one of the biggest contributors to overall biometric card performance. The goal is to complete an entire contactless card operation in less than a second and preferably much less than a second.
The SE MCU and even low power external MCUs have maximum processor speeds in the range of 60 to 100 MHz, however, max processor speed is only part of issue. The real question is how fast is the MCU in low field strengths when a card is approaching a card reader. BioSEs are designed to be more power efficient, i.e. faster at low power levels. TrustedBio takes this capability to yet another level. Because it is highly optimized for biometric cards, TrustedBio MCU can operate at substantially higher speeds across the entire field strength range.
Let’s summarize, BioSEs are designed with more memory, ability to harvest and share energy, and faster MCUs at lower field strengths. Today there is only one announced BioSE card, the Idemia/Zwipe/IDEX card. Until a new generation of BioSEs are available, our competition will require “other stuff”.
In contrast, TrustedBio has its own very fast and power efficient ARM MCU with a lot of flash and RAM. It also has its own very flexible PMU. These are the features that distinguish a BioSE from a regular SE and are required by silicon sensors. Because TrustedBio is implemented in an advanced 40 nm silicon process, even with all these capabilities, our ASIC is much smaller, less than 25% of our competitor’s silicon sensor ASIC and less expensive. As an additional benefit our ASIC uses a polymer sensor that is 250% larger than our competition, providing better biometric performance. With TrustedBio, card designers can achieve costs in the range of $5 using existing SEs or BioSEs. Even when more BioSEs become available, TrustedBio will still be less expensive and higher performing.
There have been many pilots with Gen 2 cards that have provided invaluable insight into the market and technology. Some, including IDEX and competitor’s sensor Gen 2 cards, will ramp up into volume production. However, it is clear that low-cost Gen 3 cards will be the ones that enable mass market adoption.
This past year has seen two highly innovative and disruptive solutions. Idemia/Zwipe have accelerated the market by focusing on one end of the card and developed a single chip BioSE. IDEX has focused on the other end of the card and developed a sensor that works equally well with BioSEs and regular SEs. Our two technologies work extremely well together as we leverage each other’s strengths and optimize a high-performance low-cost card for their customers.
At the same time IDEX is accelerating adoption with other customers and the rest of the world. When we introduce customers to the technology and performance of TrustedBio they instantly understand that TrustedBio is unlike any other sensor. They immediately understand that it is much more than a fingerprint sensor and that it will greatly simplify the card design and drastically reduce cost.
While it might seem that IDEX is a small company with little experience. The reality is that our 100 person engineering team is highly experienced with decades of work in mixed signal analog and digital ASIC design, sensor design, system engineering, modeling and simulation, software and algorithm development, biometrics, encryption, material science, high volume production testing, supply chain management and much more. Most have joined IDEX in the last few years as we recruited world class talent around the globe. We have major design centers in the US, UK and Europe with technical support throughout the world including Europe, US, and Asia.
Several years ago, when IDEX refocused 100% on biometric cards, we recognized that accelerating the biometric card market required substantially reducing card costs by eliminating the “other stuff” on a card. We did not want to wait for a new generation of SEs. We intentionally set out to completely change the technology for biometric cards and not just make another fingerprint sensor.
TrustedBio is our 3rd generation sensor developed in an advanced 40 nm mixed signal silicon process. We use multiple Tier 1 suppliers, for example, TSMC for the ASIC and Amkor for sensor assembly and test, so we can rapidly scale to very high volumes. TrustedBio is a disruptive sensor that is several years ahead of anything else in the market, dramatically cutting costs, simplifying manufacturing and providing outstanding biometric performance. No other fingerprint sensor can accomplish these goals.
All of us in the biometric card business should welcome these rapid developments. The biometric card market is huge. By enabling low cost, high performance and easy to manufacture biometric cards, the market will start accelerating in 2021.
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Den er skrevet av VP tek i Idex guido har veldig mye gode artikler som han har skrevet
IDEX Biometrics Receives Additional Production Order for TrustedBioT Sensors from a Tier 1 Card Manufacturer
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Disclosure of voting rights in IDEX Biometrics - chair Morten Opstad - 9 Dec 2020
Vil dette ta kursen opp eller ned…noen som har en ide…
Registration of new shares in IDEX Biometrics 10 December 2020
Hva betyr dette egentlig?
Det lurer jeg også på…
Noen som kan gi en forklaring…
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Hva er en ansattes kjøpsplan?
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Takk for den @BioMed. Noen andre tanker rundt IDEX?
Er det en god case å satse på? Har noen lodd inne, men sliter litt med å skjønne hva som styrer kursen. Opp noen dager uten melding, mens nedgang ved melding om nye salg av kort.
Takk for svar, med andre ord en binding inn i firmaet som gjør at de ansatte ønsker å gjøre firmaet bedre og aksjen styrker seg.
Eg er ganske så fersk i gamet, men her er no det eg har samlet sammen til no 
Ein aksje tester heiletiden støtte. Det er forskjellige typer mennesker som kjøper aksjer. Tradere alt fra time dag uke trigger ja det er forskjellige faktorer for kva som gjer at dei kjøper handler. Man har dem populere Shorterene som låner aksjer over ein avtalt tid, desse ønsker å få ned kurse… Google den så for du bedre forklart 
Så har du investore som gir litt faen i desse svingningene (ofte desse som låner vekk aksjene til shortere) Fordi dei skal sitte ei stund i aksjen muligens pensjons aksje som dei skal kose seg med utbytte.
Grunnen til at den gikk ned var at den hadde gått såpass opp og den mista volum altså mindre intresse for å kjøpe. Da er det fort for at noen tar gevinst, deretter kommer “pulje 2” som ser at den er på vei ned og tar sin del av gevinsten fordi det viser seg at den skal ned å teste støtte. Dette handler om TA ( teknsik Analyse )
Eg kan veldig lite om det men eg snuser her og der for å ta til meg kunnskap og stemming i aksjen.
Eg personlig trur den skal teste 2.5 holder ikkje den ja da tror eg den skal teste 2.2
bare synsing !!
Greit å besteme seg for kva strategi du skal ha, er du investor, trader eller Shorter.
Har du kursmål, venter på produktet ect ect.
Uansett er det lurt å sette seg inn i selskapet.
Og prøve å feile.
Eg tror den størte hinderen for folk flest er å selge.
Fordi dei er redd for å gå glipp av kroner FOMO ( Fear of missing out )
Den kan bli ein dyr lærepenge. Meen all lærdom er lærdom så lenge man lærer av det.
Mvh Bonde fra Hardanger. 
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