Why Choose Cogent
Cogent has delivered some of the fastest and most accurate systems to customers all over the world.  Our total cost of ownership is lower than competing solutions because our systems are backward-compatible with earlier versions, interoperable with a variety of industry-standard software and hardware platforms, and able to scale linearly in performance to meet customers’ evolving needs. Cogent's solutions also reduce operational costs by providing advanced automation to increase staff productivity. For customers that deliver services such as law enforcement, healthcare, welfare, voter identification, and immigration, Cogent sets the standards for growth, scalability, new technology innovation, and, most importantly, investment protection.

Cogent Firsts
At Cogent we are proud of our advanced technology and our contribution to the biometric identification industry.

This list below shows more than 17 years of Cogent's scientific and technological achievements in the advancement of the biometric identification sciences.

1993 PC-based AFIS with 100% database penetration for fingerprint searches
1993 PMA Technology
1994 Selected as the technology supplier for the first nationwide Fast-ID system (the IDENT System)
1996 Integrated Palm & Finger AFIS
1999 First AFIS vendor to demonstrate interoperability with all other AFIS vendors' systems
2000 WebCheck - First Web Based Fingerprint Identification Solution
2003 Delivered first AFIS in the world designed to store/use 1,000ppi images
2003 Delivered first AFIS in the world designed to store/search multiple identity records per subjects
2004 Delivered world's fastest real-time ID system for Voter Authentication in Venezuela
2004 First biometric access control device with Power-Over-Ethernet capability
2006 First template generation and matching algorithm to receive GSA Certification for FIPS 201
2006 Industry first Bluetooth-enabled portable fingerprinting scanner