IrisAccelerator™

IrisAccelerator is a system that provides a fast iris matching facility using Iris ID's technology. IrisAccelerator is configurable to support large population databases of up to 1 billion with hundreds of millions of de-duplication transactions per day. The IrisAccelerator system is a cluster of servers where each server runs multiple matching engines, often referred to as 'Blades'. The IrisAccelerator architecture is designed to be hardware independent and can be deployed on a virtual machine to realize economies of scale. In order to reduce the response time of searching the database, IrisAccelerator™ matches an enrollee's IrisCode in a parallel fashion.

The IrisAccelerator™ system consists of the following modules. The IrisAccelerator™ SDK provides the Application Program Interface to communicate with the system, with enrollment and identification functions that can be used by end-user applications. IrisController™ is the server component that manages the database of users and their IrisCodes, processing SDK requests as the one-point access to IriSABRE™. IriSABRE™ is the iris matching module that matches requests against the entire database; all enrollments and IrisCode deletions are updated in IriSABRE™. The LoadBalancer runs on a Linux server and interfaces between the SDK and the cluster of groups, forwarding requests to IrisControllers in round-robin style, adding new servers to the group and removing non-functioning ones, with a failover protection mechanism that ensures smooth functionality of the cluster. The IrisAccelerator™ Configurator provides an interface for creating, deleting, and modifying the groups and servers in the system. The IrisAccelerator™ Device Manager ('DM') provides control and monitoring of the entire system, displaying the configuration of every server as well as the active and backup LoadBalancer.

Multiple deployment configurations are available, from an enterprise blade-server platform to private cloud solutions.