World's First Pet Identification Service Recognized as International Standard

Using Physical Features Such as Animal Nose Prints
Enabling Identification of Individual Pets

The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) announced on the 21st that the ITU-T international standard (X.1097) for pet identification technology using telebio recognition technology was pre-adopted at the UN-affiliated ITU-T SG17 international standardization meeting held on the 8th at KINTEX in Ilsan.

Dr. Kim Jae-sung of KISA and the pet company Pairico developed the world's first "pet identification authentication service using telebio recognition technology" over approximately three and a half years since April 2020. This is a security authentication technology that uses physical features such as the biometric patterns (nose prints) and facial features of pets like dogs and cats to identify individual pets anytime and anywhere.

The main contents of the pre-adopted international standard (X.1097) define the requirements for devices that acquire biometric information such as pet nose prints and facial features, the functional requirements for the identification authentication platform, performance testing methods for pet nose print and facial recognition algorithms, and guidelines for database construction.

Dr. Kim Jae-sung of KISA, who led the development of this international standard, stated, "We hope that this international standard will be finally adopted in the future, improving the existing animal registration method that inserts biometric chips inside dogs' bodies, and widely utilized as a groundbreaking new identification security authentication technology that can also increase the currently low animal registration rate."