TECH5’s T5-AirSnap Finger contactless capture technology meets the qualification requirements defined in NIST Special Publication (SP) 500-339
August 20, 2026, Geneva, Switzerland. TECH5, an innovator in biometrics and digital identity management, today announced that it has been included on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fast Capture (FastCAP) webpage among the organizations that completed Phase One qualification testing and met the requirements defined in the NIST Special Publication 500-339 framework.
Contactless fingerprint capture has the potential to transform how fingerprint-based identity services are delivered. Traditional capture often depends on dedicated hardware that requires physical contact. Camera-based capture can extend fingerprint acquisition to standard mobile devices, making services more scalable and accessible while reducing dependence on specialized peripherals and shared surfaces.
T5-AirSnap Finger is TECH5’s patented, AI-powered contactless fingerprint capture technology. Using the camera of a standard smartphone, the application typically captures the fingers within two seconds, without requiring a dedicated scanner or device calibration. It provides finger and wrong-hand detection, capture guidance, NFIQ 2-compliant quality assessment and fingerprint liveness detection, and supports operator-assisted and self-capture workflows. The software can scale images to 500 ppi and supports FBI-certified WSQ compression and ISO/NIST-compatible image and template output, enabling interoperability with existing contact-based fingerprint systems. T5-AirSnap Finger has also passed ISO/IEC 30107-3 Presentation Attack Detection Level 1 conformance testing conducted by iBeta Quality Assurance, whose published confirmation letter for version 2.5.2.2s records a 0% Attack Presentation Classification Error Rate across 900 presentation attacks representing six attack types.
T5-AirSnap Finger transforms an ordinary smartphone into a powerful contactless fingerprint capture device. TECH5 has successfully tested the technology on entry-level smartphones priced at approximately US$60, demonstrating that advanced biometric capture does not require a premium handset or a dedicated fingerprint scanner. With a minimum hardware profile of a 5 MP rear camera, 3 GB RAM, a 2 GHz or faster quad-core processor and FHD+ video, T5-AirSnap Finger can run on more than 90% of all active smartphones worldwide. This broad device reach makes contactless fingerprint capture practical for national-scale and high-volume identity programs while significantly reducing the cost and logistical burden of specialized hardware.
The FastCAP initiative brings government and industry together to evaluate biometric acquisition capabilities, refine performance measurements and advance contactless rapid tenprint identity capture. According to NIST, Phase One qualification testing provides a baseline for assessing the current state of rapid identity-capture hardware and software and will help shape future evaluation criteria and program milestones. TECH5’s qualification follows its participation in the NIST Contactless Fingerprint Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Consortium and several years of iterative development, testing and technical engagement.
By reducing dependency on purpose-built capture equipment, contactless technology can help organizations extend biometric services into mobile and remote environments without deploying dedicated hardware at every enrollment point. These capabilities support mobile identity checks and law-enforcement searches, digital onboarding and electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC), national and digital identity programs, border and travel workflows, access control, and identity services for population that fixed capture infrastructure has not reached. Independent evaluation frameworks such as FastCAP remain essential for establishing confidence in image quality, matching performance, security and interoperability.
T5-AirSnap Finger is designed for civil enrollment and verification, mobile law-enforcement checks, rapid-ID workflows and interoperability with existing 500 ppi fingerprint galleries. TECH5 has reported operational use in South Africa for Android-based mobile law-enforcement identity checks, as well as participation in UK Home Office self-enrollment trials.
“Our customers made the decision to deploy contactless capture on the strength of operational results, and those results have held up at national scale. NIST’s Phase One qualification under SP 500-339 now puts an independent, published benchmark behind that experience. We see this as an important step for the industry: it gives every buyer a common reference point, and it strengthens confidence in a technology that is already delivering in the field. We look forward to continuing this work with NIST and the wider identity community as the programme expands.” — Rahul Parthe, Co-Founder, Chairman and CTO, TECH5.
T5-AirSnap Finger is available to partners and customers worldwide, and is already in operational use in civil identity programs and in law enforcement rapid identification scenarios: https://tech5.ai/t5-airsnap/
The NIST FastCAP Phase One qualification list is publicly available at: https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/btg/fast-capture
Important clarification
TECH5’s appearance on the NIST FastCAP webpage reflects completion of Phase One qualification testing and satisfaction of the requirements defined in the SP 500-339 framework. It does not constitute certification, ranking, recommendation or endorsement by NIST.