LaserLock signs $7M contract with Mexican gaming company for biometric authentication service
LaserLock Technologies has announced that it has signed a 10-year, $7 million contract with a Mexican gaming company for its…
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.
Allegion deploys hand geometry readers at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Allegion recently completed a biometric access control deployment at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. This is the same place…
Apple rumoured to launch iWallet app using fingerprint sensors to make purchases
Apple is preparing to launch its ‘iWallet’ app, which would allow customers to use the iPhone’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor…
Suprema provides Turkish supermarket chain with biometric employee tracking
Carrefour, a supermarket chain in Turkey, has selected fingerprint recognition terminals from Suprema, that will be used to track employee…
Brussels Airport to introduce facial recognition scanners
Following the lead of other major airports throughout Europe, Brussels Airport in Zaventem plans to deploy facial recognition scanners next…
NCR expands use of BIO-key’s fingerprint authentication solutions for POS
BIO-key International announced that NCR Corporation has expanded its use of integrated BIO-key fingerprint authentication solutions through several national retail…
Uniphore develops voice biometric solution for farmers
Indian software firm Uniphore has developed a customized voice solution that combines speech recognition and voice biometrics to provide a…
Identification and verification firm Facebanx joins the Biometrics Institute
Facebanx announced it has joined the Biometrics Institute, bringing the member count to 155 including Gemalto, Hitachi Europe, Nuance Communications…
Top biometrics news stories, week of July 27
Biometrics Week in Review: FBI opens biometrics center, State Department request for information, Capital Hill concerns about fingerprint recognition, emerging…
BioCatch Flags Bank Fraud Attempts Using Physiological and Cognitive Behavioral Analysis
For Israel-based biometric authentication and threat detection company BioCatch, the way we do things says a lot about who we…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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