Persay technology helps keep banned soccer fans from games

The system, to deployed in Europe, calls banned football hooligans at home and verifies their voiceprints.

Persay Ltd. announced today that its biometric speech verification technology will be used to monitor football hooligans banned from attending soccer games. Persay’s system will be deployed in a number of European nations through Elmo-Tech (a subsidiary of Dmatek Ltd.) and operated by ADT Monitoring Services.

The monitoring system assists the police in ensuring that hooligans, convicted of initiating and participating in violent acts and banned from attending soccer games, will comply with their detention period and will be remotely monitored from their homes during the games.

Persay noted that Holland’s Ministry of Justice recently passed a new law encouraging the deployment of biometric speaker verification technology. The Dutch police force, which is known for its use of unconventional methods to tackle violence at soccer games, chose this monitoring system following a competitive analysis.

The system is programmed to randomly call the banned fans at home during the soccer games and to verify them by voiceprint. The speaker verification system is designed to work on various telephone networks, independent of language and accent, taking into consideration various environmental scenarios such as background noise and changes in a person’s natural voice patterns. Calls cannot be redirected via call-forwarding to mobile phones, and the system is able to successfully detect recording/playback attempts.

Persay's technology is also used in ElmoTech’s electronic monitoring system for adult and juvenile inmates under house arrest. This system has been deployed in Holland, the US, UK, Spain, and New Zealand. Another of Persay’s systems is presently used by the US Department of Homeland Security to monitor immigrants possessing temporary visas, replacing physical attendance at immigration offices with remote attendance.

Tel Aviv-based Persay is a spin-off of Verint Systems (Nasdaq: VRNT).

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on Sunday, October 09, 2005

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