Cash Hawk

KritiKal's Cash-Hawk is a state-of-the-art solution assisting banks, financial institutions & enforcement agencies in tracking sources of counterfeit currency. Cash-Hawk is a robust and reliable solution backed by two years of extensive  research on the available technologies, user perspectives and cost effectiveness. This is a significant step towards eliminating the deep rooted menace of fake currencies. Deployment of this solution at banks will increase business security and customer confidence/satisfaction, manifold.


CASH-HAWK AT A GLANCE 

This path breaking offering from KritiKal is based on advanced high speed digital image acquisition and processing technologies to capture and extract currency serial numbers circulating in a banking system. The system maintains transaction records for creating an audit trail in case of detection of counterfeit currencies.

Key features of Cash-Hawk :
  • High speed currency feature capture (4 sec for 100 notes)
  • Transaction evidence through image of depositor
  • Utilizing advanced digital camera technology & optics for best image quality
  • KritiKals proprietary OCR (Optical Character recognition) engine providing high accuracy, reliability & repeatability  
  • Comprehensive transaction details (Account number, Teller ID, Branch ID etc.) are tagged to currency details
  • Built-in information security using strong encryption for data storage and communication
  • Intuitive Graphical User Interface


FEATURE  LIST

  • KritiKal's high performance OCR engine (Alphanumeric version)
  • Multi Level User Authentication
  • Report Generation & Audit Trail
  • Communication over SSL
  • Configuration & encryption key distribution
  • Remote Software Upgrades
  • Microsoft SQL database with data archival
  • Graphical User Interface through popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome.

INVESTMENT PROTECTION

  • Built upon industry standard platform
  • Leverage investments in existing infrastructure
  • Retrofittable solution with existing Note counting machines
  • Scalable and modular design using established H/W & S/W platforms
  • Seamless integration with core banking.

WINNING CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE


Cash-Hawk assures constant  customer confidence with the pro-active approach from the banks/financial institutions to curb circulation of counterfeit currency by detecting the source and solving the problem at the core.

BUSINESS SECURITY


Cash-Hawk is Industry's first          comprehensive solution for currency serial number tagging and provides thus far missing link to trace origin of counterfeit currency. Banks can be assured of legitimate currencies being deposited at their teller counters

ENHANCED PRODUCTIVITY


Its easy adoption makes banks         productive from the day one. With the tracking & source detection   problem simplified by the offering, saves precious operator time spent on checking each currency bill and helps reduce customer waiting time.

SPECIFICATIONS

Imaging Sub-System
  • 1/3 Progressive Scan high speed sensor
  • Pixel size: 6.0m x 6.0m
  • Max frame rate: 60 fps
  • Encrypted Monochrome/Color JPEG (640 x 480 , 320 x 240(depositor) )
  • CE, RoHS compliant
  • Temperature
    • Operating : 0-45 deg
    • Storage: -30-60 deg
  • Lighting subsystem
    • High intensity LEDs, 24x7 operation
    • Long life
    • Input Power: 12V
  • Controller Subsystem
    • 8 bit Microcontroller
    • Input Power: 5V
  
Recommended Hardware
Client Specification at Teller
  • Intel P4-2.8 GHz/AMD (or higher)
  • 1 GB RAM (or higher)
  • Communication
    • USB 2.0
    • Ethernet
  • OS  Windows XP, Windows Vista
Server Specification
  • Dual processor 3.0 GHz Server Class (or higher)
  • 2 GB RAM  (or higher)
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • (optional support for MySQL, Oracle)
  • 1 TB Storage (20 clients, 200 transactions per day, 6 months)