Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the Unique Identification Authority of India joined hands to develop a touchless biometric capture system for a smooth process and anytime and anywhere access as mentioned in the report released by the Ministry of Electronics and IT.

IIT Bombay and UIDAI will together conduct the research to develop a mobile system for biometrics and a liveness model that is integrated with the capture system. Once this touchless system will be developed fingerprint authentication will be available at ease from your home itself just like face authentication.

This new feature will be able to capture multiple fingerprints at one go and will result in increasing the success rate in the future. As soon as this new feature comes into action it will be made available in the aadhaar ecosystem as many other aadhaar features.

This new system of touchless biometric capture system will be a good combination of image processing and machine learning with a usual mobile phone that is generally available to most people with a good user experience. This will be a step forward in making the Universal Authenticator a reality.

These joint efforts by UIDAI and IIT Bombay through its National Centre of Excellence in Technology for Internal Security (NCETIS) will result in joint research and development for making the best system for UIDAI.