147e:2016 — Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor

Upek

Vendor ID: 147e
Product ID: 2016
Combined: 147e:2016
Decimal: 5246:8214

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor manufactured by Upek. The vendor ID 147e is registered to Upek with the USB Implementers Forum, and 2016 is the product ID that Upek assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 147e:2016 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 147e:2016 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 147e:2016, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 147e:2016. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=147e, idProduct=2016.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_147E&PID_2016
USB\VID_147E&PID_2016&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_147E&PID_2016"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor:
      Product ID: 0x2016
      Vendor ID: 0x147e  (Upek)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

147e  Upek
	2016  Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor

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