(Press release)

IDEX ASA shows SmartFinger fingerprint sensor technology at Mobile World
Congress Barcelona 2013.

Oslo, Norway, 21 February 2013: IDEX ASA today announced it will be exhibiting
and demonstrating the usability and outstanding performance of its award-winning
SmartFinger® fingerprint sensor technology at the Mobile World Congress
Exhibition and Conferences 25-28 February 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.

IDEX will demonstrate various mobile phone-related technology implementations
such as fingerprint recognition on the Android operating system.

"During the last six months IDEX has experienced a strong interest from the
market for its fingerprint technology for use on mobile devices. This confirms
the imminent mass adoption of fingerprint biometrics, and represents a game
change within the markets of secure mobile payments, mobile banking, online
commerce, ID and access," says Ralph W. Bernstein, CEO of IDEX. "IDEX is also
seeing strong interest for fingerprint biometrics on embedded secure devices as
well as contactless biometric cards, cloud security and Internet of Things. IDEX
is one of very few players with early, patented, core intellectual property in
fingerprint imaging and recognition," says Bernstein.

SmartFinger Film fingerprint sensor
The patented IDEX SmartFinger sensor is a compact fingerprint swipe sensor,
available in various form factors, designed for integration in mobile and card
products. It has low power consumption and offers superior biometric
performance. The SmartFinger fingerprint swipe sensor can be easily implemented
into a variety of applications requiring biometric authentication such as mobile
phones, one-time password devices, Smartcards, ID cards, access control devices
and biometric tokens. The technology is protected by multiple patent families
covering subjects such as sensing principles, sensor component design and image
processing algorithms. Combining the extremely small software footprint with a
low-resource microcontroller of choice and alternative configurations, IDEX is
able to offer a complete biometric authentication solution tailored specifically
for mobile phone and card applications.

SmartFinger evaluation and development kits
IDEX will be showing the Smartfinger evaluation kit for customers who wish to
evaluate the Smartfinger Film fingerprint sensor. The evaluation kit connects to
any Windows PC via a USB port and allows for fingerprint enrollment,
verification and match.

IDEX will also be showing the SmartFinger Embedded development kit which enables
customers to incorporate their product application with IDEX's SmartFinger
biometric embedded libraries onto a single low-cost Cortex M3 based
microprocessor.

Mobile World Congress visitors
Mobile World Congress is held at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain. IDEX
exhibits at booth 7G01. http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

Visitor contact: Jack Robinson, VP of sales and marketing, +47 9137 0562,
jack.robinson@idex.no

Press contacts IDEX ASA:
Ralph W. Bernstein, CEO, +47 9305 9303, ralph.bernstein@idex.no
Inge Berge, VP Business Development and IR, +47 9326 8836, inge.berge@idex.no

About IDEX
IDEX ASA specializes in fingerprint imaging and recognition technology. IDEX's
vision is to ensure individuals a safe, secure, and user-friendly use of
personal ID. IDEX has developed the award-winning SmartFinger® technology
platform based on the company's core intellectual property, including the
patented fingerprint imaging principle, sensing scheme and chip design. Combined
with core software solutions for imaging and authentication, the SmartFinger
technology enables on-device enrollment, template storage and verification
within the very same module. SmartFinger solutions can be seamlessly integrated
into a variety of embedded applications such as mobile phones, one-time password
devices, Smartcards, payment and ID cards, payment terminals, access control
devices and biometric security and login tokens.

IDEX ASA (ticker IDEX) is a Norwegian public company listed at the Oslo Axess
marketplace on the Oslo Børs (Oslo stock exchange). For more information, please
visit www.idex.no or contact IDEX at mailbox@idex.no

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This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

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IDEX at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2013