Teamed up with its partner BNC S. de R.L. de C.V. in Mexico, INSIDE is the provider of 400 000 PicoPass™ contactless memory chips for this project. The system proposed by BNC and INSIDE to the Honduras Government is based on the premise that securing a weapon permit takes out any fraud possibility for document duplications or alterations. The unique chip placed on each Weapon’s Permit will authenticate the permit holder’s fingerprint identification and the weapon ballistics information. Thanks to INSIDE’s reader technology the chip will verify the stored data matching it with the weapon’s and the permit holder’s minutae without requiring to access the centralized database.

The permit, encompassing PicoPass™ secure contactless chip, enables the storage of the holder’s personal data as well as weapon information.  Thanks to this system, a constantly updated computer database is created to monitor all of the happenings in terms of weapon movement throughout the country.  Further to the personal data, pictures and fingerprints of the applicant, the weapon’s picture will be securely stored within the secure memory chip.   

INSIDE has been chosen specifically for its 16KS memory chip capacity, security for biometric storage (fingerprint, picture) and its dual protocol feature (compliant with ISO 15693 and ISO 14443B), enabling both long range and proximity applications.  Additionally, the PicoPass™ chip offers a real support for multiple applications as it enables the coexistence of up to 16 independent applications while fully maintaining separate security conditions. The state–of-the- art cryptographic authentication prevents memory reading and modifications by any unauthorized person and from chip cloning or simulation.

Enrique Martinez de Velasco Project Manager at BNC states: “BNC and INSIDE have shown their expertise in their respective fields. The challenge of this project was to find a user friendly but highly secure alternative to enable data collection and verification, we consider that we have all come to a great achievement for this weapon control project.”