Vision
Our vision at 3M Cogent is to provide the highest quality biometric identification systems, products, and services with unparalleled innovation, accuracy, and speed.

We offer our customers state-of-the-art system solutions, allowing them to be leaders in their own fields.

3M Cogent is a global biometric identification solutions provider to governments, law enforcement agencies, and commercial enterprises. 3M Cogent provides the highest quality identification systems, products and services with leading technology, accuracy and speed. 3M Cogent's Automated Fingerprint/Palmprint Identification Systems, or AFIS, enable customers to capture fingerprint and palm print images electronically, encode prints into searchable files, and accurately compare a set of fingerprints/palm prints to a database containing potentially millions of prints in seconds.

For over twenty years, we have researched, designed, developed, and marketed fingerprint biometrics technologies that incorporate advanced concepts in fluid dynamics, neural networks, image enhancement, data mining, and massively parallel processing. Our leading-edge software algorithms, integrated with optimized hardware, enable our customers to cost-effectively achieve the industry-leading accuracy rates and performance. We support the latest standards in fingerprint biometrics and have based our systems on cost-effective, industry-standard hardware and software platforms. We are focused on enabling our customers to expand the capabilities of their systems as their biometric needs evolve.