ADERA Global Smart Tech AGST
Powering Authentication Transactions

In the fast progressing digitalised world, security and data protection has become the key concern while rolling out solutions. The very first level of the digital world is identifying the real identity of customers to avoid exposed liabilities due to lapses in security solutions that organizations provide. This is becoming more eminent in the world of digital banking, digital mobile, and e-commerce transactions, and even digital asset management. Enter ADERA Global Smart Tech (AGST).

A part of the ADERA Global group of companies, AGST is a technology company with computer vision and AI Technology running from its own biometrics algorithm embedded into its core products, solutions, and services. “We use our secure biometric technology in Facial Recognition and Iris Recognition to enable clients digitally onboard their customers, deploy digital authentication, create service automation, perform analytics digital authentication of their customers’ activities and through machine learning, create AI to enhance their service offering,” says Mr. Anthony Ong, Group CEO, ADERA Global. Further, AGST also offers a secure digital payment solution that enables closed-loop e-wallets, micro-financing, and others.

AGST understands the importance of building a trusted, secure solution to prevent any compromise to digital data access. “Like any home, your first level of security is your access to the entrance of your home, the door. Our solution enables you to build robust digital security around your services starting from creating a secure digital Identity (Digital ID) – comprising your biometric feature (Facial, Iris, or Fingerprint) AND your legal tender (Identity card, driving license, passport, corporate ID card, etc),” states Mr. Ong With the digital ID, clients can then set access levels of the services for customers, depending on what they have subscribed— without compromising the customers’ accounts.

AGST offers a suite of products and services in three areas: Digital Payment Solutions, Digital Automation, and Digital ID Solutions. In the Digital Payment Solutions area, AGST offers a Closed-loop e-wallet as a service and an Auto fare Collection System (AFC) that secures architecture closed-loop e-wallet solutions through software as a service (SaaS), adapting e-KYC and creates a digital auto-fare collection system, respectively.

When it comes to the Digital Automation side of the business, AGST offers Auto Banking Hall Solutions, and Auto Insurance Customer Service Solutions, and Data Analytics and AI Solutions. Lastly, in the Digital ID Solutions area, the company provides a Unified Biometric Platform (UBP) that allows its customers to manage all biometric technologies they have adopted, perform enrolment, access setting, data management, dashboard reports. Recently, AGST has taken this area further to offer BCAT and BPass solutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr. Ong informs, “Over the last 18 months, facial recognition has become a norm for consumers. For us, it was innovation from its existing technology and products that BCAT and BPass were born.”

We use our secure biometric technology in Facial Recognition and Iris Recognition to enable clients digitally on board their customers, deploy digital authentication, create service automation, perform analytics digital authentication

AGST has deployed thousands of units locally and established a regional partnership to distribute this product in the SEA region and were even selected by GovTech Singapore to be one of the four pioneer distributors for GovTech’s mass scanning SPOTON solution. Further, AGST has developed its BCAT into a digital ID solution for businesses to create a Corporate Digital ID solution integrating into HRMS to help customers adopt digital ID solutions for their employees and reduce paperwork, manual reconciliation of documents.

What differentiates AGST is that they always look at clients’ needs. “Our focus is to offer a secure digital ID solution that can be integrated into customers’ current platform to replace all manual processes into digital processes,” says Mr. Ong. Therefore the journey starts with a secured Digital ID package (biometric + physical ID) that can be integrated into ERPs and CRMs (through APIs) that customers can adopt and redeploy their resources to other areas. In an instance, the AGST team was able to secure the Auto Banking Hall solution for the largest Bank in Cambodia, with its VTMs, FDM, and terminal management system (TMS). This is an endorsement of the technical capability and value add to banks where AGST can help them scale their service offering, especially in acquiring new to bank transactions, product purchases tremendously while reducing their investment and operation costs.

With the sound implementation and structured development of its technology, securitisation of products, the emphasis on ethical protection and use of data, and scalable implementation and deployment, Mr. Ong believes that the potential of AGST products and solutions will be a huge fit to the Asia region. The company will not only fill the gap for digital technology adaptation for governments and banks around the world but will also help create the first step to lifting poverty by helping the unbanked population access financial services. “Our solutions, all digital, is also our way to helping sustainability to reduce papers, reduce poverty and allow anyone to be able to open a bank account anywhere, anytime,” concludes Mr. Ong.