SBIR-STTR Award

Greetly is the perfect application to track individuals that enter a facility or base. Greetly can capture visitor information, send notifications to hosts, and store that information for future reviews, analytics or communications purposes. Greetly envisions allowing Security Forces personnel to email a link for a vetted visitor to download a QR code or barcode to a Smart Device. Upon arriving at the installation, the vetted visitor would show the QR code or barcode on their Smart Device to the installation entry controller who could use a Defense Biometric Identification System scanner and verify the authority to enter the base by scanning the QR code or barcode. The military can use Greetly at recruiting stations. Visitors would check themselves in avoiding queues, capturing legible information, and removing all need for data entry into a recruiting database. The resulting data can also be used to perform analytics - when do people visit, why, and what factors lead to signups. Similarly, Greetly could be used for on-base schools or training rooms. This allows the military to track attendance, facility usage and more.

Each week, thousands of visitors pass through the entry control point (ECP) at Joint Base San Antonio to attend basic military training graduation. "Each of the visitors for each event must be pre-vetted by Security Forces and provided a paper visitor pass to enter the installation," said Col Jeffrey Carter, 502nd Security and Readiness Group commander at JBSA-Randolph. This aged process is time-consuming and the Air Force simply does not have the manpower to support. Utilizing airmen or hiring civilian personnel to man ECPs and reception desks costs tens of thousands of dollars and reduces productivity. The simple and cost effective solution...Greetly, the digital kiosk that provides smarter visitor reception. ---------- NOTE: This is an updated and FINAL version of the 2021 TAFCI proposal original submitted on June 29, 2021. Greetly's prior Phase II solution will be further extended and scaled with additional TACFI funding. Through our work with the 96 SFS at Eglin AFB during our Phase II, we have developed software infrastructure, interface, and workflows that enable Sponsors, Security Managers, and Security Forces personnel to exercise real-time control of 100% of the visitor authorizations within their approval hierarchies. The main goals of our involvement in this project are: a) Increase the scalability of the Phase II prototype, so that it may be deployed “off the shelf” to nearly all Air Force installations without requiring additional development or customizations. b) Construct a zero-trust identity authentication system for 100% of non-CAC holders (visitors) to verify access authorization and credentials. This mechanism will be based on USAF trusted private key credentialing, paired against a visitor forgery and spoof resistant identity mechanisms. c) To create an immutable, auditable database of visitor behavior events, with access detail extended to restricted areas such as secure facilities, flight lines, and munitions zones. Behavior events may include entry/exit history, location data, access events, and passive detection systems. d) To prepare this database for future application of machine learning / artificial intelligence (ML/AI) programs to conduct outlier detection and predictively notify installation commanders of emerging security threats. e) To prepare this database for export to Air Force directed systems of record such as the Defense Biometric Information System (DBIDS). f) To prepare this database for export to Common Operating Picture systems used by commanders and emergency responders, such as ATAK, C2IMERA, and COPERS. g) To enable the above in a zero-touch environment, allowing the ability to instantly posture for future pandemics requiring contactless procedures and accurate contact tracing.