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Commercial Applications

Biometrics are used in retail and customer-facing settings for point-of-sales services such as payments, access control in systems for purposes such as shoplifting prevention, and identification or characteristic analysis for personalization or customer insights. Access control systems are also increasingly used for automated commercial applications, such as hotel check-ins. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition.

 

BIO-key provides fingerprint authentication solutions to three new eye care customers

BIO-key International announced it is providing fingerprint authentication solutions to three additional eye care customers – Eyecare Medical, Hollingshead Eye…

 

Behaviosec authentication technology based on users behavioral biometrics

Swedish security startup Behaviosec is offering an authentication service based on behaviorial biometrics, according to The Independent. Behaviosec CEO Dr….

 

Apple partners with Visa, Mastercard and American Express for iPhone wallet

Apple is partnering with credit card companies, financial institutions and retailers to enable iPhone users to make secured mobile payments,…

 

Chinese institute developing facial recognition system for online purchases

Researchers at the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology in China are currently developing a facial recognition payment system…

 

More than 350K iris and fingerprint devices shipped a year in India: 6Wresearch report

6Wresearch announced it has a published a new report that shows that more than 350,000 iris and fingerprint units were…

 

ImageWare to provide retailer with multi-modal biometric identity management on Fujitsu cloud

ImageWare Systems announced it has signed a three-year contract with an undisclosed major international retailer to provide its multi-modal biometric…

 

Top biometrics news stories, week of August 31

Here’s a recap of most popular and noteworthy biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometrics Week…

 

LifeBEAM: An interview with Zvika Orron, CTO and Co-Founder

LifeBEAM specializes in creating unique hardware and software platforms that monitor multiple physiological parameters including heart rate, blood flow and…

 

Precise Biometrics announces new strategy to reach profitability during 2015

Precise Biometrics announced it is focusing the operations in order to reach profitability during 2015 by boosting its market presence…

 

Bodet provides food manufacturer with biometric time and attendance system

Bodet Ltd. announced it has provided and installed a biometric workforce management system, which includes three palm scanners, for food…

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