Brussels, Belgium 8 November 2021 - Following the publication of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) of the ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard for mobile driver’s license (mDL) and mobile IDs (mID), Zetes announces the availability in its portfolio of a fully compliant solution.

The publication of the new ISO standard follows six years of close collaboration at global level with a wide variety of stakeholders such as issuers, technology providers, regional authorities, and businesses that accept identity documents to approve transactions. As one of the technology providers, Zetes’ mother company Panasonic was involved at an early stage and therefore contributed a great deal to the final approval of the standard. With the acquisition, Zetes was able to participate with its own know-how and took part to the interoperability tests with a solution responding to every requirement defined by the standard. Zetes therefore now goes to the market with a mobile ID solution that can be used and recognised anywhere around the world.

 

Increased privacy & protection against forgery

While interoperability was a major focus point during the elaboration of the standard, to make sure a mDL or mID issued by the authorities of one country could also be read in any other country, many other criteria needed to be considered. Increased privacy for mDL and mID holders, protection against forgery using crypography or the ability to work without a connection are a few of the specifications that get described in the standard.

 

Geert Peeters, Head of Business Development and Innovation of ZetesConfidens declares: “As a global provider of highly secured ID documents for about two decades, it is quite natural that our offering should evolve to propose dematerialised, yet perfectly safe authentication means. Since 2018 and the creation of our ZetesConfidens business unit, which is dedicated to secure electronic authentication solutions, we have developed an offering which is compliant with several other very stringent international norms, such as the EU eIDAS regulation or the EU COVID Certificate. The publication of the ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard is a crucial step towards wider adoption of mobile identification solutions. We are very proud to have contributed to the development of this ISO norm and are looking forward to seeing new opportunities unfold.”

 

Through its hardware division, Panasonic offers a wide range of devices that can be used for the verification of mDLs or mIDs that are ISO compliant. Already used by the police services of several countries around the world, they perfectly complete Zetes’ offering around mobile identity. Panasonic and Zetes will continue to collaborate and make synergies in mobile identity.