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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.

 

DigitalPersona Provides Fingerprint Solution for Chinese Fashion Retailer

Biometric identity verification solutions provider DigitalPersona announced on Wednesday that Chinese fashion retailer New Look has selected a Point-of-Sale system…

 

Apple to release mobile healthcare and fitness app

Apple is working on a mobile app designed to track healthcare and fitness levels. According to a recently published report…

 

Samsung smartphones to expand biometrics use with iris recognition

Samsung announced yesterday that it intends to incorporate biometric sensors into the majority of its mobile devices, including low-cost smartphones,…

 

Top Biometrics News Stories, Week of May 11

Biometrics Week in Review: multi-lab testing of rapid DNA technology, Fingerprint Cards order for touch sensors, Stanford prof looks to…

 

Top Biometrics News Stories, Week of April 19

Biometrics Week in Review: Samsung’s Galaxy S5 fingerprint hack, Fingerprint Cards order for touch sensors, CardLogix encoding engine for ID…

 

Top Biometrics News Stories, Week of April 12

Biometrics Week in Review: Cognitec boasts NIST test results, Eximbank deploys fingerprint authentication, AGNITiO’s mobile voice biometrics platform, banking apps…

 

Banking Apps to Feature Voice Biometrics, Audio Virtual Assistants

Two major banks will soon introduce the use of audio virtual assistants combined with voice biometrics in their mobile apps,…

 

GCR Launches Biometric System with Business Automation

IT products and services consulting firm GCR announced on Wednesday it has introduced a credentialing system that couples the power…

 

Stanford Researchers Develop Video Game Controller with Biometric Sensors

A Stanford University research team has modified an Xbox 360 control pad to measure a player’s heart rate, rate of…

 

Animetrics launches facial recognition API for commercial licensing

Animetrics has just released its first API for commercial licensing. The new API, called FaceR, gives developers to ability to write…

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