Distributed Systems
It might be uncommon to find multiple biometric applications and multiple biometric devices on a single computer system, but the long-term aim of telebiometrics is to allow multiple biometrics applications on multiple systems on the Internet to interwork with multiple other systems that support biometrics devices.
BioAPI has already laid the foundations for this, with its architecture.
Another ISO/IEC JTC1/SC37 Standard - BioAPI Interworking Protocol (BIP) - specifies an enhancement of the BioAPI Framework that essentially maps all API calls into network messages (defined using ASN.1) to provide a distributed BioAPI system.
BIP is also being progressed as a Recommendation in ITU-T as Joint text with ISO/IEC.
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