In 80s a joint Soviet-Indian company Sovindeita was set up. The company
started from assembling PC systems for motor-car industry. From the very
outset the Company had considerable scientific potential due to which
it successfully realized perspective elaborations. At the end of 80s
the specialists of the company began elaborate the system of automation
of citizens’ identification using fingerprints. Further this tendency
became basic for the Company. Soon Sovindeita was reorganized into
Sonda Technologies CJSC.
In 1992 the first version of Automated Fingerprint Identification System
(AFIS) was installed for experimental exploitation in
Expert-Criminalistic Department at DIA of Magnitogorsk. In 1993 Sonda
AFIS took the first place in Testings of ECC at the MIA of Russia in the
search mode «latent - fingerprints». Sonda distribution in Russia had
been started from that time. At first it was installed in ECC at the
MIA of Russia, and further in Municipal Expert-Criminalistic departments
in Krasnodar, Yaroslavl, Vologda, Kaluga, Magnitogorsk.
In the late 90s for the first time the Company transferred its product
abroad: Uzbekistan and Ukraine. At the beginning of new century Sonda
Technologies came out on the International Market. Appeared new partners
from Asia (India, Korea, Japan, China), Near East (Pakistan, Iraq,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon), South America (Uruguay, Peru, Guatemala,
Panama).
Sonda AFIS versions are perfected, new programs are created, which
doffer with simple installation and servicing, exploitation reliability
and high search characteristics. High level of Company’s elaborations
was approved in International Competitions of Biometrical Algorithms -
SlapSeg04, Minutiae Interoperability Exchange Test (MINEX), and
Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC) - where in a row of tests
Sonda algorithms took first prizes.
In November 2004 The Sonda Company was awarded with golden medal
'Quality and Safety Guarantee' in competition of VIII International
Forum of State Safety Support 'Interpolitex-2004' for its elaboration
and introduction of Sonda AFIS together with optical fingerprint scanner
'Sonda LS5'.
In addition to software the Company started produce optical fingerprint
scanners, which was elaborated by its specialists. New product differed
with high reliability and reading accuracy. The Company had got more
than 50 patents for its elaborations, identification method and
hardware. In 2006 the Company had got an International Conformance
Certificate for the System Quality Management ISO 9001:2000 with
reference to elaboration, production, delivery and maintenance of
software.
Advanced technology products attracted investors, this fact served as
new impulse for Company development and biometrical technologies as a
whole. The company was reorganized into Sonda Technologies Ltd. It
started producing different biometrical systems of civil application.
These are Access Control and Time Attendance Systems for enterprises,
Dermatoglyphic Informational Automated System (Sonda DIAS) for
medico-genetic consulting of the citizens, using their fingerprints and
palmprints, complex system of School Safety and Parents’ Notification
Stay-in-touch, a line of Software Development Kits (SDK) using which
anybody can built Fingerprint Identification Systemsñ of any level from
national ID-cards and Biometrical Passports up to Local Access Control
Systems.