FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa., Nov. 15, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- Digital Descriptor Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:DDSI) a leading designer and marketer of digitized imaging systems and biometric identification solutions for the criminal justice and security markets, today announced the first non-criminal justice market sale of its new Fingerprint Matching System (FMS) the only fully scaleable fingerprint identification system in the world designed to take full advantage of the Windows(r) NT/2000 environment.
FMS was first launched in September of this year, the system sale announced today has been acquired by a county's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the purposes of identifying and tracking its homeless population.
The county will be integrating the FMS SDK with an existing application developed in Lotus Notes, which contains all the necessary demographic information. FMS will be used to track the homeless population that resides at the county's shelter providing positive identification for staff members.
Digital Descriptor Systems CEO Mr. Garrett U. Cohn commented, "This sale was a direct result of our plan to leverage our existing sales channel to grow our business as we roll out new products. DDSI's history with this county goes back more than five years. Our technology is widely recognized within the Criminal Justice market, with an installed customer base of nearly 300 video mugshot installs. That credibility should prove value to our sales efforts as we expand our new FMS and "Identify on Demand" products into new commercial bio-metric security and identification applications."
About Digital Descriptor Systems, Inc.
DDSI develops, markets, implements and supports integrated enterprise-wide image applications designed especially for criminal justice organizations. With more than 1,000 customers worldwide, DDSI is an industry-leading imaging solutions provider. The company's customers include states, cities, counties, corrections, justice and public safety agencies. In addition to the current criminal justice marketplace, DDSI is introducing its technology into other commercial markets such as financial, access control and the biometric identification industry. Digital Descriptor Systems, Inc., is based in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. The Internet Web site address is www.ddsi-cpc.com.
Except for historical matters contained herein, the matters discussed in the press release are forward-looking and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions, especially as regarding installation schedules and product mix, and involves risks and uncertainties which may affect Digital Descriptor Systems, Inc.'s business and prospects and cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements, including sufficient funds to finance working capital and other financing requirements of Digital Descriptor Systems, Inc., market acceptance of the Company's products and competition in the computer industry.