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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.

 

Precise Biometrics confirms Verizon will sell Tactivo

Putting an end to all of the speculation, Precise Biometrics has just announced that Verizon will begin selling the company’s…

 

NEC provides biometric security system for pilot test at Narita International Airport

NEC is providing a security system for field trials of a “Non-stop Gate” system being carried out by Narita International…

 

Open eCard releases open source eID middleware

Open eCard has released the sources of the ISO/IEC 24727-based Open eCard app, as an alternative to proprietary eID middleware…

 

Frost & Sullivan gives Vision-Box 2013 European Vertical Market Penetration and Leadership Award

Frost & Sullivan has given Vision-Box the 2013 European Vertical Market Penetration Leadership Award, based on its recent analysis of the border…

 

Fujitsu, T&W Operations team up to develop school bus biometric physical access control

Fujitsu Frontech North America has announced that it has teamed up with T&W Operations, Inc, an IT and logistics solutions…

 

Medbox acquires 50% partnership stake in MedVend

Medbox has announced that it will acquire a 50% partnership stake in MedVend, LLC, a Michigan based bio-tech company that has developed…

 

South Delhi Municipal Corporation schools to get biometrics for attendance, lunch payments

Biometric attendance systems will be installed in schools of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation in April of this year, in…

 

Accurate Biometrics lands Illinois fingerprinting services contract

Accurate Biometrics announced on Thursday that it has been awarded the Master Fingerprinting Services Contract for Illinois for the fourth…

 

Senate bill could ban biometric data collection from school children in Maryland

Republican State Senator Joseph M. Getty has recently proposed a bill that would ban the gathering of biometric data from…

 

Precise Biometrics to launch Tactivo for Android this year

Precise Biometrics plans to launch its wildly popular Tactivo for Android and other mobile platforms by the end of Q2 this…

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