Sensor Suite

Powerful sensor systems

Right from the production stage, and at a rate of up to 140,000 banknotes per hour, G&D systems guarantee that only the highest quality banknotes are delivered from the printers to the central bank. Banknotes in circulation are uncompromisingly checked to ensure that they only rejoin the money cycle if they satisfy the central bank’s stringent fitness criteria. This level of performance is provided by modular and flexible systems like the BPS M7 and BPS 2000, fitted with sensors that have been specially adapted to the specific requirements.

Reliable quality inspection

Sensors in the NotaMaster range check every single banknote using identical criteria. They help printers to optimize processes and minimize waste. Confidence in its own currency is vital to any state. That is why central banks and banknote printers carry such enormous responsibility. The strictest standards are applied both to quality inspection in production and to final authentication at the central bank. This is the only way to ensure that every single banknote enjoys the trust of the general public. G&D supports these inspections with special sensors in its NotaMaster range. These sensors deliver the highest print quality combined with unsurpassed reliability of authentication.

Before the lifecycle of a banknote begins, it is equipped with some distinctive properties. To make sure these properties are always checked to the highest standards, G&D has developed sensors that have been specially adapted to the printers’ needs. The sensors in the NotaMaster range check each individual banknote against identical criteria, thereby helping the printers to optimize processes and minimize waste. Intuitive adaptation and analysis tools support the user in doing this.

The optical banknote inspection system in the NotaMaster range registers even the tiniest discrepancies and ensures any banknotes that do not meet the specification are shredded. It also displays the detected printing errors in graphical form for analysis. Other sensors check all the machine-readable properties. They use the same principles as banknote processing systems in cash centers, ensuring every banknote that goes into circulation is “fit” for the entire automated money cycle.

Genuine or counterfeit? A decision without compromise

The quality of counterfeit banknotes is rising across the globe. To keep one step ahead of the counterfeiters, central banks employ special high-security features as authentication criteria.

Tailored sensors from G&D’s NotaMaster sensor range are used to verify these counterfeit-proof features and establish the authenticity of a banknote without compromise and beyond doubt – even if it has suffered considerable damage to its outward appearance during circulation.

Every banknote is unique

Once they are in circulation, banknotes can pose considerable challenges to the sensors of processing systems in the cash centers of central banks, commercial cash-in-transit companies, and commercial banks – depending on their design, security features, and the requirements set by the central bank.

G&D offers sensors that can cope with any job: perfectly coordinated with the processing system and the sensor software, specific sensors in the NotaScan family recognize the printed image and every machine-readable feature perfectly – resulting in smooth, plausible and highly efficient processing.

Sensors in the NotaScan range identify the banknote denomination, its authenticity and state. They meet all the requirements of modern authenticity and fitness frameworks. An example of this is the new NotaScan Image sensor introduced in 2009. The range also includes the new NotaScan Profile thickness sensor, the NotaScan Ink for verifying special infrared properties, and the soon to be released NotaScan Mag magnetic sensor.

Standards required of modern sensors for analyzing banknotes

The way banknotes are processed must follow the specifications of the central bank. This includes observing the trend towards authenticity and fitness frameworks. A trend which is being reinforced by another – the growing trend towards automation of all processes in the money cycle. Besides the technical authenticity check, banknotes must also be evaluated for fitness, to ensure that they can be assessed quickly and with certainty by human senses alone. Production tolerances are permitted within a certain range, but must not detract from the correct analysis.

NotaScan – the universal solution for the cash cycle

All the requirements mentioned are covered by the innovative NotaScan range of sensors. The sensors are constantly being further developed to keep them at the cutting edge of technology. NotaScan thus creates the conditions in which the authenticity and fitness of every single banknote can be analyzed thoroughly and reliably.