Precise Biometrics has announced it has selected GD Burti for exclusive distribution of the company’s fingerprint and smart card readers in Brazil.

The move to get heavy distribution in Brazil became increasingly important for Precise as the country is completing its roll-out of the Brazilian National ID project which provides all of Brazil’s citizens with a smart ID card that has an embedded chip with each citizen’s fingerprint data for authenticating their identity where necessary.

The new program in Brazil means that the country will see a growing need for readers capable of scanning the smart cards and a fingerprint to perform various transactions with the population, which Precise hopes to fill with its Precise Sense line of readers.