Are You Responding to the CBP RFI, “RFI Land Automobile Major Zone Traveler Photograph Seize Machine”?

Facial recognition corporations, let’s discuss Requests for Info from the Division of Homeland Safety. I wrote about one in 2021, so I figured I’d write about one other one which was simply revealed at this time.

However earlier than I do, let me simply say that…um…I’m skilled in responding to Requests for Info (RFIs) from the Division of Homeland Safety…and that’s all I can say.

And this new RFI is intriguing.

The RFI with Discover ID RFI-LVPZTPCD was issued by U.S Customs and Border Safety at this time (April 30) and is due in a single month (Might 30). The outline consists of the next:

“CBP is in search of an answer for capturing facial photographs of auto occupants in an officer-manned main zone at an inbound car level of entry (POE).”

As we speak’s CBP RFI-LVPZTPCD envisions the use case during which individuals are getting into the U.S. in a automotive…and are NOT getting out of the automotive. However you continue to must seize their faces at a ample high quality stage, which is simpler stated than completed. Heck, in Might 2022 it took me a number of tries to seize a passport facial picture at CVS after I WASN’T in a automotive. Now add distance, odd digicam angles, and probably an intervening automotive windshield, and also you’re in for giant challenges.

I ponder what number of facial recognition distributors are planning to answer this RFI…and what number of want the skilled proposal assist that Bredemarket can present.

I do know one biometric agency that always responds to Division of Homeland Safety RFIs, however this agency doesn’t have a “Land Automobile Major Zone Traveler Photograph Seize Machine.” So whereas this agency has used Bredemarket’s proposal companies up to now, it received’t reply to this explicit RFI.
I do know one other biometric agency with a eager curiosity in land car main zone traveler photograph seize units, and maybe this agency might reply to this RFI. However that is the agency that didn’t renew my consulting contract within the fall of 2024, and I haven’t heard from them since.

After all, there are different facial recognition corporations on the market, a few of which can have excellent options to the CBP’s downside.

And in case you haven’t heard, Bredemarket has a gap for a facial recognition consumer, and might present successful proposal improvement companies.

So if I may also help your facial recognition agency reply to this RFI, guide a name: https://bredemarket.com/cpa/

(San Ysidro Port of Entry image by Philkon (Phil Konstantin) – Personal work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15343509.)