UID Unique IDentity... What Is a UIN?

The UID (Unique Identity) Scheme is one of the most ambitious projects of the UPA government. The agenda to set up the UID Authority of India (UIDAI), under the parameters of the Planning Commission, is targeted at providing a unique identity to  most of the population of the flagship schemes to ensure that the benefits reach them. The unique identification number would ensure that any lacuna in these schemes is removed so that the benefits do not reach those they are not meant for.

Also, the UID programme will provide an identity card to every citizen to establish citizenship and address security concerns. 

Intel eyes UID project; to ride on biometrics, computing expertise

Leveraging its experience in the field of biometrics and leadership in the computing space, the world’s largest chip maker, Intel, hopes to attract a significant pie of the business that will arise from the Indian government’s Unique Identity (UID) project, which is headed by former Infosys head Nandan Nilekani.

Biometrics (which includes fingerprint, face and iris recognition) and computing power hold the keys to Nilekani’s UID project. Which is estimated to offer a Rs 15,000-20,000 crore opportunity to computing, database, smartcard and storage vendors, besides systems integrators. For every rupee of IT spend on the UID project, industry experts estimate, around 60 per cent of the spending will go to hardware vendors.

Nilekani, on his part, has categorically stated that the UID is just a number and not a card. However, the number is given after a citizen is enrolled at different centres across the country where his biometrics (face or fingerprint) are recorded and stored for retrieval when a need for identification arises.

WHAT IS UIN?

A Unique or Universal Indentification Number

PATENT- SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSAL IDENTIFICATION OF BIOLOGICAL HUMANS

A system and method for uniquely identifying each human being and generating a Universal Identification Number (UIN) to aid tracking. UIN database comprises of public, health, and confidential information. The number issued for display on UIN Identity Card and used for accessing data on-line protects privacy of the individual by hiding sensitive informafion. Medical emergency data is provided to authorized hospitals and medical practitioners for advance preparedness to save lives. UIN database is accessible to law enforcement agencies, when authorized under specific circumstances. UIN prevents identity fraud by protecting unique identity of every human and helps in tracing lost or wanted people. UIN fulfills a pending need for technological system to eliminate child abduction, identity fraud, credit card theft, and help in saving lives of people. Future UIN applications relate to biosensor integrated device interacting with radio signals for monitoring and rescuing patients.

HOW IS A UIN ASSIGNED?

Algorithm/ Calculation /UIN = Number of a Man

HOW IS A UIN  USED?

The present invention is a system and method for uniquely identifying and tracking biological humans, whereby each human being is associated with a universally unique identifier, the UIN

(Universal Identification Number)

Will obviate need for multiple documentary proof

· Facilitate easy verification

· Facilitate easy availing of government or private services

· Help welfare programmes reach intended beneficiaries

· Serve as basis for e-governance services

12 parameters of data that will be used for India’s Unique ID (UID)

The following details that would be captured for the Unique ID - an individuals

IBM Builds 'Bar Code Reader' for DNA

Imagine a world where medicine is guaranteed not to cause adverse reactions because it's designed for an individual's DNA.

Imagine a diet tailored to the precise speed of a person's metabolism. Using a little microelectronics, a little physics, and no small dose of biology, IBM has brought that futuristic world a little bit closer.

The DNA Transistor is a project from IBM Research that aims to advance personalized medicine, by making it simpler (and much cheaper) to read an individual's unique DNA sequence — the special combination of proteins that makes you unlike anyone else.

The technology isn't finished yet, but its potential is tantalizin enough that IBM wanted to share it with the world. And the company claims researchers are making progress.

Essentially a bar code reader for genes, the DNA Transistor is part technique and part device. It consists of a 3-nanometer wide hole, known as a nanopore, in a silicon microchip. A sensor in the pore can read DNA and determine its unique makeup.

The challenge scientists face is controlling the rate at which a strand moves through that nanopore: A DNA molecule needs to spend enough time in it for the sequencing to work. By cycling voltages to the transistor's poles, IBM aims to move the DNA through the nanopore at a consistent rate one nucleotide (molecule of DNA) at a time.

The company's researchers are currently investigating various housings for the pore as well, honing the multilayer (metal and dielectric) nano-structures to move samples through more evenly. -foxnews

“Since every record surely contains something offensive to someone, sticker them all. Make this as meaningless as the bar code.”