What is PD CEN/TS 17631 about?
PD CEN/TS 17631 guides providing access:
- To areas with physical access control, e.g., Entertainment facilities, train stations, shops, libraries, banks, or border control,
- For small groups of persons, e.g., Families with small children or seniors, or other accompanied persons in need of support,
- Using biometric authentication technologies, e.g., Facial, fingerprint, or vein recognition,
- In the European regulatory context.
PD CEN/TS 17631 addresses the following aspects, which are specific for biometric and group access:
- Accessibility and usability,
- User guidance including group guidance and interaction control,
- Privacy including data set content,
- Presentation attack detection,
- Applicable biometric technologies,
- Storage of reference data,
- Biometric process integration,
- Specific needs considering biometrics for groups,
- Biometric performance and error rates, and
- Group internal linkage.
Note: The following aspects which reflect on generic access control issues are out of scope of PD CEN/TS 17631:
- IT security,
- Application-specific physical security,
- Policy definition,
- Processes not related to biometric authentication, and
- Specific performance requirements of identification (1:N) and verification (1:1) applications.
Who is PD CEN/TS 17631 for?
PD CEN/TS 17631 on personal identification is useful for:
Areas with physical access control:
- Entertainment facilities
- Train stations
- Shops
- Libraries
- Banks
- Small groups of persons: Families with small children or seniors, Other accompanied persons in need of support
Why should you use PD CEN/TS 17631?
PD CEN/TS 17631 provides guidelines for biometric group access control for non-discriminative applications, high throughput, increasing automation, focus sharpening, prevention of child trafficking.
PD CEN/TS 17631 provides biometric authentication technology that will benefit you with:
- Usage Harmonization
- Extension of the target user group compared to current biometric access control technology, interoperability in workflow and data formats,
- Establishment of usable biometric group access in several application environments, facilitation of throughput of biometric processes used for access control
- Integration of biometric technology into security technology.
By adapting, PD CEN/TS 17631 you can access a biometric system properly, it reduces queuing times, decreases the need for (e.g., human and financial) resources, improves the security level and never gets slow down.
