Border Control via Passport Verification using Fingerprint Authentication Technique

Abstract

Security of lives and properties is of high essence to a nation's growth and development. With the increase of global terrorist invasions, levels of national internal border security need to be increased. Thus, the need to deploy technologies such as biometric for further fortification cannot be underrated. Research has shown that biometrics technology - as an authentication technique has a broad-spectrum application in fields ranging from banking, medicine, airlines and so on. Unlike the conventional means of security checks, which basically entail physical/manual verification. Biometric techniques such as Face recognition, Fingerprint, DNA are more reliable and capable of uniquely identifying individuals in the verification process. The porous nature of the nation's border enables unauthorized immigrants gain access to the country which poses a high level of security threat. In this paper, a biometric based border control system is developed to reduce the rate of illegal immigrants into the country. C# programming language was employed to implement the proposed biometric based border control system. The various stages of biometric authentication were incorporated. The proposed system is recommended for controlling illegal immigrants at the Nigerian border.