Projecto de um sistema biométrico para recém nascidos em Moçambique

Abstract

The way found to register people almost all over the world has always been fingerprint and photos, which are registered on cards and allow identification. However, the number of products and services that involve identification of individuals has grown strongly in recent years. Therefore, biometrics has gained relevance, as it is simpler and more convenient than the memorization of passwords and the user doesn’t need to carry an ID for identification as its done using biological or behavioral characteristics. The usage of biometrics technilogies in hospitals, specially in maternity hospitals, is an innovation with the final goal of security reiforncement, providing comfort to patients and avoiding babies trafficking, that has occurred within hospital units. If sample acquisition protocols are correctly followed, both appropriate equipment and recognition methods adapted to the characteristics of newborns are used, it will be possible to collect their fingerprints while still in the delivery room. Neonatal 2022 is a digitalized system that register the mother's personal data as well as fingerprints in a software database, and minutes after labor delivery, during the registration of the newborn's data, the baby's fingerprint is also taken and attached to the mother's record, and upon leaving the hospital their identities are checked/confirmed.