Real Time Identity Solutions
Identity Solutions for Identity Authentication, Securing Borders, Quick Background Checks, Fraud Prevention, and more. Cogent LiveID solutions provide easy-to-use systems for live identification where fast, positive identification of individuals is required. In the private sector, LiveID is used to provide fast, convenient, and secure authentication of an individual's identity for e-commerce applications. 
 
For government and civil sectors, such as Human Service agencies, LiveID is used to maintain the integrity of entitlement programs. Immigration control agencies use LiveID for bordercontrol identification checks. Criminal justice agencies use LiveID for rapid identification of crime suspects and for jail management. It is also used by agencies to establish identity for people who apply for passports, drivers licenses, voter registration, and for other identity documents.

How LiveID Works
Cogent's LiveID provides a fast, practical method for searching for people in a database. Fingerprints are captured electronically requiring no ink, no mess, and no special fingerprint expertise. Digital photographs, signatures, and demographic data can be captured and stored. With information entered, Cogent's Data Flow matching technology makes it possible to accurately search entire databases from a few records to those containing millions of records in a matter of seconds. Our Image Fusion technology makes it possible to combine identification systems.

Scalable Solutions from Hand-Held Devices to Nationwide Networks
A LiveID system can be configured to run on hand-held devices, notebook computers, stand-alone workstations, and enterprise systems serving users at thousands of sites. Systems can be implemented on platforms operating under UNIX, Windows, and Linux.

Cost-Effective Outsourcing Solutions for Real-Time Identification and Authentication
In addition to providing customers with turnkey LiveID solutions, Cogent also provides a fully outsourced LiveID service. Cogent works with customers to tailor solutions to their needs. Systems are housed and maintained in a secure data center at Cogent's South Pasadena, California headquarters. The data center is equipped with high-speed, fault-tolerant Cogent PMA matchers and enterprise servers that make it possible to meet each customer's specific requirements for applications services, response times, and database sizing - even when a system requires processing speeds of millions of matching transactions per second and databases of millions of records.

Using LiveID to Meet Mission-Critical Business Needs
Cogent's proven Image Flow, Data Flow, and Information Fusion technologies have paved the way for accurate, cost-effective, rapid identification systems that meet a wide range of needs.

For the multi-billion dollar airline industry, the Airline Reporting Corporation uses a mobile LiveID  system to control fraud in airline tickets issued to travel agents throughout the United States.

In Ohio, an award-winning LiveID system allows over 550 schools, day care centers, hospitals, nursing homes, and other employers to perform criminal history background checks on employees via the Internet.

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service uses LiveID at over 500 border crossing points to determine if individuals apprehended for illegally entering the U.S. have ever done so before or have been deported for criminal activity.

In Guatemala, in what the United Nations has called a  model operation, LiveID prevents applicants from obtaining drivers licenses under more than one name.