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Lost credentials
A badge can be found, borrowed, copied, or stolen before revocation reaches every entry point.
BioGate: unusable by the wrong finger →
Biometric access for critical spaces
The card that knows who is holding it.
BioGate Card adds on-card fingerprint verification to physical access—helping data centers and high-security venues prevent a lost or stolen credential from becoming a working key.
Local biometric matchDesigned for existing readersNo reusable fingerprint image
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BioGate Card
Secure access credential
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A security-preserving smart card company
The access gap
A secure facility deserves more than possession-based trust.
Traditional badges prove that someone has a card. BioGate is designed to help prove that the authorized person is holding it.
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Shared access
Cards and PINs can be passed between people, weakening accountability in restricted environments.
BioGate: cardholder verification →
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Centralized biometrics
Central biometric databases create privacy, breach, and compliance concerns.
BioGate: local matching by design →
How BioGate works
One touch. Three security decisions.
The fingerprint match happens on the credential. Only after a successful match is the access signal released to the reader.
Touch
The user places a registered finger on the card’s embedded sensor.
Verify locally
The card compares the scan with a protected biometric template stored on-card.
Unlock the credential
A successful match activates NFC/RFID communication with the access reader.
Security-preserving architecture: the system is designed to avoid transmitting a reusable fingerprint image to the door reader or access-control backend.
Priority markets
Built for the places where one unauthorized entry is too many.
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Data centers
Protect server halls, network operations centers, cages, control rooms, and contractor access without requiring a biometric database at every site.
High-security venues
Restricted corporate zones, defense-adjacent facilities, executive floors, and sensitive event operations.
Critical infrastructure
Energy, utilities, communications, industrial control, and other operationally sensitive sites.
Labs & regulated facilities
Pharma, healthcare, R&D, clean rooms, and areas with auditable separation-of-duty requirements.
BioGate in practice
Protecting sensitive areas with Intellishield BioGate.
An existing fingerprint-verified access card. An illustrative scenario showing how it helps protect the places where sensitive data resides.
The challenge
A technology company holds confidential customer records, financial information, and intellectual property. Its server rooms and restricted offices use conventional access badges. When an employee loses a badge, someone finding it could attempt to enter a protected area before the credential is disabled.
How BioGate helps
Intellishield BioGate requires the enrolled cardholder’s fingerprint to enable the access credential. The connected access-control system then checks whether that credential has permission to enter the requested area. Identity verification and entry permissions work together.
A lost card at the server-room door
An employee loses their BioGate card outside the building. Someone finds it and attempts to enter a restricted server room. Their fingerprint does not match the enrolled cardholder’s, so the card does not enable the credential and entry is denied. Once the loss is reported, the company disables the card and arranges a replacement.
| Access risk | BioGate’s role |
|---|---|
| Lost or stolen card | Fingerprint verification helps prevent use by another person. |
| Shared or borrowed badge | Verification ties card use to its enrolled holder. |
| Entry to sensitive areas | BioGate verifies the holder; the access system checks entry permissions. |
Physical access is part of data security.
Protecting server rooms, records rooms, and restricted offices helps protect the infrastructure where sensitive information is stored and managed. BioGate adds cardholder verification at the entrance, alongside access permissions and security procedures.
Possession of an access card alone should not be enough to enter a protected area.
A customer pilot can document reader compatibility, verification reliability, entry speed, and performance against unauthorized-use attempts.
Illustrative scenario using the existing BioGate card; no customer deployment results are claimed.
Competitive position
A stronger credential without turning every doorway into a biometric terminal.
BioGate combines user presence, credential ownership, and local biometric verification in a familiar card form factor.
| Capability | Standard badge | Door biometric reader | BioGate Card |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lost-card misuse resistance | Low | High | High |
| Biometric template stays with user | — | Varies | Designed: yes |
| Works with existing access workflow | Yes | Reader retrofit | Target compatibility |
| Portable across controlled sites | Yes | No | Yes |
Founding team
The people building intellishield.
A founding team focused on making biometric access practical, private, and compatible with high-security operations.
Francesco Schiff
CEO
Francesco Schiff is an Italian-American entrepreneur and a graduate of the École hôtelière de Lausanne, where he earned a degree in hospitality management. He built his career in the hospitality business, leading successful teams and managing environments where guest safety, privacy, and reliable operations are essential.
His hospitality experience gave him a practical understanding of secure access to critical areas, restricted rooms, staff-only spaces, and sensitive operational zones. An early investor in digital security, Francesco later moved into the sector to pursue his commitment to privacy protection. As CEO of Intellishield, he brings operational leadership and a customer-focused perspective to physical access security.
Fabrizio Borracci
President and CTO
Fabrizio Borracci is a pioneer and internationally recognized expert in digital security, and the inventor of biometric recognition technology integrated directly into payment, identity, and access-control devices. In 2004, he founded a research initiative within the University of Udine focused on fraud and cloning in traditional smart cards. He conceived on-card biometric authentication, where verification occurs entirely within the smart card, and protected the architecture through patents extended internationally.
Borracci founded Card Tech Srl and led development of the first ISO-compliant biometric smart card prototype, unveiled in Paris at the international smart-card expo in 2014. The company achieved international pre-certifications, and he filed two additional international patents. In 2020, he founded Biomcard Srl to optimize and industrialize the technology with international component and microchip partners. Today, as President and CTO of Intellishield, he combines academic expertise, patented innovation, and industrial experience to advance secure digital identity and access control.
Giuseppe Venturini
CMO
Giuseppe Venturini followed a diverse professional path shaped by service, aviation, and technology. After completing his studies, he served as an officer in the Italian Army. He later pursued studies in aviation and obtained commercial pilot licenses in the United States.
In 2004, Giuseppe met Fabrizio Borracci and joined the project created to address payment-card cloning. That early involvement gave him long-standing experience with the commercial challenge behind secure smart cards. As CMO of Intellishield, he helps translate the team’s technical innovation into clear market positioning, partnerships, and customer adoption.
Krimo Salem
Chairman
Krimo Salem is a California technology entrepreneur, executive, and author whose career spans several major eras of Silicon Valley. He spent seven years at Oracle, five years at Adobe, six years as Senior Director of Information Technology at Electronic Arts, and five years as Vice President of Information Technology at IntelliSync.
Salem developed an early virtual-CIO service, created the vMeeting collaboration application, and advised ActiveTouch as it evolved into WebEx. He later founded TravelingPC, an early hosted virtual-computing platform supported by a patent application and featured on ABC Business Now. As Co-Founder and President of CSRware, he also contributed to the national discussion on data-center energy efficiency.
Secure the credential before replacing the infrastructure.
We are engaging data-center operators and high-security facilities for controlled pilot programs focused on reader compatibility, enrollment, user experience, and measurable risk reduction.
Product specifications and commercial terms are subject to pilot validation and certification.