Access Control for Government Buildings

EASCO's own comparison puts it this way: face recognition at 99.98% accuracy still misses roughly 1 in every 5,000 attempts. Iris, per their stated figures, misses roughly 1 in 10 million. That gap is the entire argument for specifying iris on a classified site instead of the more common option.

Outdoor use isn't a problem for these units; according to EASCO, they're built to operate day or night, inside or out. Direct sunlight doesn't throw off the reading, and low-light conditions are handled by an infrared assist rather than needing extra site lighting installed. EASCO lists the working distance at 30 to 50cm and an operating range of -25°C to +75°C, wide enough to cover most climates without a separate outdoor-rated variant.

The short version: clearance isn't checked by a person; it's checked by the system at the moment of the scan. Each employee's role and clearance level get attached to their profile when they're first enrolled. From then on, every time their iris is read at a door, the system compares that stored clearance against what that specific door requires, granting or denying entry on the spot, with a denial logged the same as an approval. EASCO notes that supervisors retain an emergency override, which itself creates its own audit entry rather than bypassing the log.

Here's the distinction EASCO draws: the system never stores a picture of anyone's eye. What's saved is a set of measurements and geometric data describing the iris pattern, and EASCO states that data can't be run backward into a usable image, similar to how you can't reconstruct a photo from a hash. So even in a worst-case breach, there's no image for an attacker to lift and no way to fabricate a fake iris from what leaked. That's the basis for EASCO's claim that iris sits ahead of other commercial biometrics on spoofing resistance.

EASCO quotes 30 to 45 business days for a standard order, start to finish. That stretches to 60–90 days once a project involves multiple zones and custom software work rather than an out-of-box setup. Paperwork ships with the hardware: CE documentation, ISO certificates, test reports the kind customs offices typically want to see. If a government timeline is tight, EASCO indicates there's some room to expedite with enough notice, though how much depends on the specific order.