| f | 1 NTRY denied!' should be the answer to any I—< unauthorised persons attempting to get into 1 J security areas. And this Is absolutely guaranteed by an innovative and comprehensive screening system developed by the Fraunhofer-Instltut fur Integrierte Schaltungen IIS (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits) in Erlangen The system has been given the ap-pealing name SESAM. a German acronym standing for synergetic "visual, acoustic and motorial recognition." and is baaed on the principle of synergetic computing systems.

The synergetic principle allows a computer to recognise. learn and record complex amounts of information independently SESAM processes the characteristic features of Individuals, filtering out those characteristics common to all people Only truly distinguishing features serve the purpose of Identification, and SESAM is able to ignore such changeables as hairstyles, beards or spectacles. In order to guarantee 1OO% recognition, the system uses three sources of information —- the visual (facial appearance). the acoustic (voice) and the motorial (lip move inentsl AddiUonal components can be integrated easily.

The rapid, reliable and contact-free identification of people according to a combination of their features makes SESAM superior to conventlonals screening methods and circumvents their common problems. The system uses no keys. ID tags or chip cards, so none of these items can be lost, decoded or forged

SESAM can handle security controls for large numbers of authorised persons It requires only a short time to learn and recognise the relevant human features, and utilises only a small amount of memory. Its visual and acoustic activation is straightforward and user-friendly, and it Is Ideally suited for installation in research. Laboratories banks and manufacturing facilities