The INFOPEN's objective is the electronic registering and identification of the guilty population. The registering process covers the acquisition of the textual information, photos and fingerprints.

The project was developed in partnership with the Antheus Tecnologia, ORACLE of Brazil, UNISYS of Brazil and PROCERGS (Data Processing company of Rio Grande do Sul state).

The project's pilot is in operation at Presídio Central de Porto Alegre, doing the access control (entrance / leaving) of the visitors and guilty by means of fingerprint comparing.

The guilt's information can be directly gotten in the documents of the process or at the CIA's (Guilt's Control and Identification) database for those that already were condemned by the justice. The fingerprints allow verify the truly identity of the registered guilty independently of the documents or data showed.

The INFOPEN is composed by a central system and remote terminals. The remote system uses client/server architecture, it is a local network composed by recognition stations, a Windows NT server and Oracle database.

The recognition stations are client applications for Windows 9x, provided with fingerprint sensors, digital cams and printers. The central system, located at PROCERGS, holds the CIA's information that is refreshed at every new alteration in the INFOPEN's base.

In the INFOPEN's project, VOXEL Engenharia de Sistemas was responsible for the integration of the remote systems with the PROCERGS's central system.

The integration covered the specification and development of the communication tools, protocols and interface with the recognition station's system.

The protocols integrate the remote applications with the PROCERGS's server COBOL programs. The communication with the hardware at PROCERGS can be done by TCP/IP communication protocols on an Ethernet network or by dial-up phone line. The system's development proceeding covered object orientated modeling and implementation on Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0.