Peer components

The architecture of a All.id peer consists in the componenents presented bellow, also represented in the following diagram.

Peer node

The peer node is responsible for communication between the All.id network and the internal peer components. It functions as a gateway to the peer, and is the only externally acessible component. It is responsible for communicating with the database, connecting with the router, dealing with network requests and responsed for biometric validations. It exposes ports for internal communication inside the client infrastructure, as well as ports for external communication with the All.id network.

Facematch

The facematch component represent the core functionality of the All.id solution, being responsible for generating face embeddings (vectorial representations of a face), which is the main data used by the network, stored only in the peer database. It's also responsible for comparing embeddings to check if two faces match and correspond to the same person. It was developed by the All.id biometrics team as proprietary tech, being a AI algorithm.

REST API

The REST API acts as a gateway to internal access for the peer node, exposing a API for integration between the client pipeline and the All.id network. This component has routes to insert new biometric assets in he peer, querying the network for biometric validations, generating usage reports, among other operations.