Few suggestions on Unique Personal Identification; Technology and Numbering Plan.

Few suggestions on Unique Personal Identification; Technology and Numbering Plan.

Abraham Paul.                                                                        15 march 2010 

The Concept: Chip cards: The identity cards will have an intelligent chip embeded in it that can be loaded with the data of DNA map, finger / eye ball print and other identity code and personal data embedded in it. The chips will have an internal operating system and data base. The chips shall be accessible through wireless network as in the case of mobile phone SIMs.

The central system shall be capable to store the information and data in each individual chip card, data of every inhabitant.  The proposal also include a unique ID card for every vehicle in the country.  

Networking: A set up identical to the wireless telecom network that can be networked across the country and controlled with a central operating system. The system shall be capable to access the chips to call for / update the data.  

The chip once activated will remain logged in to the network and provide various location based information. The information is passed on to the central system which gets updated periodically. The data can be retained in the central system for statistics even after the death of the person.  

It shall be possible to identity any person where necessary at any location with blue tooth or black berry interface and can cross verify it with the central system.  

Every visitor entering the country shall be given a temporary ID card at the point of entry. This shall be in the form of a tamper proof wrist band sealed over the wrist which is removed at the time of exit. Removal or tampering of this in between will send information automatically to the internal security. 

With progress of technology, the card & chip could be further developed as a capsule as a tamper proof module that can be inserted in the body of every inhabitant in the country and fitted in every vehicle. The capsule shall be designed to remain logged in to the Wireless / GPS system during the life time of the holder or deactivated by the system. 

Utility of this system is enormous. This unique concept is to develop and implement a method to have the data of all inhabitants record such as regional and national Census, day to day, collection and use of various information, scope for automatic updating of information, which could be used for vide range of functionalities, such as ensuring full scale voting, tax payments, education & health coverage and various other statistics.  

This can be effectively used to detect possible terrorist presence and their movements and help eradicate terrorism from internal and external sources. 

Built-in Safeguards. The key break through idea is the Built-in Safeguard against non compliance and fraud.

It shall be mandatory for every inhabitant at the time of birth and visitor at the time of entry in the country to register and become part of the system and get the identity card and remain logged in to the network. The system will detect non-compliance which  shall be treated it as a punishable offence.  

The location of the person and the time of the day, day of the year and type of the card / person will be recorded in the central data base and will be continuously updated.  

Fraud is prevented by unique in-built system feature, making it compulsory for the individual card holder to keep the chip card with him in live-and-logged-in condition. Any discontinuity is promptly detected by the system, in case of prolonged discontinuity of the card the appropriate authority is informed.  

Tampering or detaching the chip card is prevented by adopting tamper proof fixing and sealing of the device in a capsule and embedding in the body of the holder and making the device unserviceable in case of tampering or removal from its placing.  

Wireless network. The service is to be implemented with GPS networking identical to vehicle tracking and navigation service. Three Geo Synchronous Satellites needed for the Global Positioning System can cover the entire country.  

 The Sociologic hurdle which can hamper the proposal.  A major hurdle in implementing this is perhaps the possible civic objection about invading the privacy of the individuals. However, the matter is identical to the mobile phone users, with the exemption that the mobile can be switched off or kept away to defer detection.  

Numbering plan for Universal Unique Identification. Scope: It shall be possible to allocate a discrete Universal Number for each living and to be born Individual which can be used as his Universal ID. Such a numbering plan will belong to Government and could be allocated various government authorities, Election commission, Census department, , municipalities, various Service Providers like telecom, utility, banking etc.,  

Proposed below is universal 'Numbering Plan' for Unique Personal Identification in the country. 

While allocating geographic location is not important as the person is likely to move to various different locations during his life time. The technology proposal envisages that the data of every individual and the ID shall be available in one centralized Home Location Register as in the case of telephone system. The HLR’s are networked with Visitor Location Register VLRs  which will have information of the location where the individual is at point of time. 

Scope of numbering plan:

Format of the proposed Unique Personal International Identification number (UPIN) shall be:-

UUPIN = + Cc Sa Sc Gt Pn

Components of proposed numbering plan.

‘+’ is the Inter-National Access code: (translated to local needs of the country of origin.) 

Cc = Country Code (91 for India)                                   

Sa = Server address (001 to 999) For various grouping, humans, vehicle etc.

Sc = Service code as necessary (0-9)

Gt = Gender Type, (1 to 4) (1= Male, 2=Female, 3=Neutrals, 4 – 9 reserved. different type of vehicles in case numbering for vehicle.

Pn = Personal Number (PQ MCDU. 10 digits) (0000000001 to 9999999999)

In the example below, 10 digits Pn is used.

The range of Unique Personal Identification Number UPIN of Males will be:

UPIN = and

Female UPIN = Sa Gt Pn = 001 1 2 0000000001 to 999 1 2 9999999999

To distiguish Indian citizen form foreign citizen the country code can be added in the plans as in the case of telephone numbering plan. International number: Cc Sa Sc Gt Pn = 91 001 1 1 0000000001 to 91 999 1 1 9999999999

Ten digit Personal number can provide numbers for 10 billion persons in each gender which would be enough for all those living, to be bone and the dead for next 100 years with enough redundancy without the need to recycle the numbers.

a)      10 billion NUMBERS per each gender type.

b)     As people will be moving around, there is no need to issue location based number. There is provision for a Server Address code Sa to the data base and distribute it in different Servers. Numbering plan can accommodate 1000 Server address Codes.

c)      Exclusive Identification number for gender type Gt, Male, Female and Neutral gender.

d) Every vehicle in the country also could be given a unique identification number which can identical but discrete from the numbering of human ID cards

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(Ex-VP Technical Sales Siemens SPCNL, India / GM & SMT TBG, BPL Mobile/ TES(I) DoT India) e-mail: papaul@hotmail.com