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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.

 

Biometrics Institute sees rise in biometrics among mobile devices

The Biometrics Institute released the results of its 2014 Industry Survey, which saw a significant rise in the use of…

 

New doorbell uses facial recognition technology

Two former graduate students from Southern Methodist University in Dallas are set to launch a new doorbell that uses facial…

 

Credit union offers biometric fingerprint scanning solution to members

Service 1st Federal Credit Union is now offering members biometric fingerprint scanning authentication, developed by RG2 Solutions, according to a…

 

VoiceVault to support Mandarin Chinese voice verification in mobile apps

VoiceVault announced it is now offering phrase-based voice verification in Mandarin Chinese. The announcement comes at a time where there…

 

Top biometrics news stories, week ending July 6

Biometrics Week in Review: biometric sensors in smartwatch and smartphone, new biometric ID card for India, finger vein recognition, biometrics2014,…

 

Fingerprint sensors market to be valued at $14.35B by 2020

The global fingerprint sensors market is forecasted to surpass $14.35 billion in revenue by 2020, growing at a CAGR of…

 

Yapital tests payments by fingerprint scan technology

European cross-channel payment solution Yapital announced it is currently testing payments by fingerprint scan, as an alternative to PIN entry….

 

Samsung to release second smartphone with fingerprint sensors

Samsung announced it will soon release its second biometrics smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S5 mini, which is a smaller version of…

 

Argus Global installs biometrics tracking system at Australian university

Argus Global has installed its iTrak incident reporting and risk management solution at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, making it…

 

Japan biometrics market to see 34.6% CAGR spike by 2018, says report

Analysts project that Japan’s biometrics market will see a 34.6 percent CAGR rise from 2013 to 2018, according to a…

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