Adhaar project is almost the largest IT project so far because storing and maintaining the information about 1.2 billion people is not a kid's play and cant be handled by small start ups. Adhaar project gained a lot of attention internationally with Microsoft and Yahoo wanting to be part of it. But now its being handled by Unique Identification Authority of India led by Nandan Nilekani who is also a co-founder of IT giant INFOSYS.
Mahindra Satyam and Morpho (part of Safran group) are providing technology for issuing UID's. Mahindra Satyam and Morpho are responsible for maintaining the databses and cross checking the information. Mahindra Satyam is providing system integration and IT while Morpho is providing biometric equipments. Morpho is the same company which is providing the explosive detectors for Delhi's Indhira Gandhi International Airport.
The UIDAI website has quite a bit of information about the various equipment and the integration. The biometric scanners for the finger prints and iris scans come from L-1 Identity Solutions and Cross Match Technologies. Morpho has signed an agreement with L-1 to use their scanners for this project. In simple terms: UIDAI brings Morpho, Morpho brings L-1. Both L-1 and Cross Match will provide one eye scanner and one finger print scanner.
The software used is currently designed for 32-bit operating systems and requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. For further details you may like to click here
This is a brief overview of technology behind India's UID project. I will come back to you soon with another brand new interesting article till then just wait....
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