“I don’t do R&D, but rather R&F: ReSearch and Find!” Arnaud Brochard notes with a smile, when talking of Innove Access, the company he created in Caen in 2009, specialising in innovative technologies applied to property and personal security.

An idea that was inspired by his career in computer science and finance… “A sector within which events or disruptive technologies regularly generate new markets,” he explains. “However, such opportunities need to be seized and their ramifications analysed…” After leaving Paris to return to his Norman homeland, Arnaud Brochard set to hunting out new technologies waiting to be exploited. Biometrics based on the recognition of the human venous system was to become his Grail. He approached Hitachi, the manufacturer of Biovein, a unique product in the field. A reader scans the human hand and the haemoglobin reaction to the infrared light enables a sensor to copy the venous network. The resulting encryption generates an irreversible 128-bit key. Innove Access now markets the product throughout Normandy, adding to access control further applications such as invoicing, duration-based payment, alarm system management, air-conditioning, etc. “We all have our own, internal key,” adds Arnaud Brochard. “No more badges that are incessantly loaned, copied, lost or stolen, nor forgotten access codes.” Several public authorities and industrial firms have already adopted the system. “We need to create the market”, explains Arnaud Brochard, now looking to develop his already diversified activity in Le Havre: human hand morphology (a time management solution), fingerprints (electromagnetic locks), visio-mobility (remote site viewing/management) and on-site communication (remote control via mobile phone, presence detection and protection of isolated employees).

Arnaud Brochard Director of Innove Access
7, rue Alfred Kastler 14000 Caen
Tel: 02 31 43 98 82
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