FB pixel

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.

 

Nuance Communications launches voice biometric password reset solution

Nuance Communications has announced its FastReset password reset solution based on the company’s existing voice biometric technology. FastReset allows employees to…

 

VoiceVault announces language-independent passphrase authentication

VoiceVault has just announced its latest generation of voice biometric identification solution, which now sports language-independent personalized passphrase modes. According to…

 

DigitalPersona, QSR, Posiflex, Hooters to host free webinar on biometric POS

In terms of complicated point-of-sale systems, those in bars have got to be the toughest to get right. Constant voids,…

 

Barclay’s deploys Nuance voice biometrics system for customer authentication

Barclay’s Wealth Investment Management has implemented a Nuance voice biometrics system in its call center to quickly authenticate its phone-banking…

 

Next round of smartphones to incorporate biometrics

Biometrics Research Group, Inc. expects that biometrics will become integrated within a wide number of mobile devices in the near…

 

Vision-Box shows off new biometric periscope, capable of long distance face and iris capture

Vision-Box has just introduced its new biometric periscope, for the long distance simultaneous capture of face and iris in self-service egates….

 

Most hotel operators not aware of benefits of NTDC biometric exercise: HOPESEA official

The Hotel and Personal Services Employer’s Association of Nigeria (HOPESEA) has asked the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) to further educate the…

 

Matt Smallman to keynote Voice Biometrics Conference, May 8-9, in San Francisco

Opus Research has announced that Matt Smallman of Barclay’s Wealth and Investment Management will present this year’s keynote case study…

 

Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority to install biometric workforce management system

The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) is set to install a biometric workforce management system in March, in an attempt…

 

IDEX to present mobile device fingerprint sensor concept at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Norway-based IDEX has announced that it will be presenting its concept of a fingerprint sensor embedded in the display cover…

Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides

Most Viewed This Week

Featured Company

Biometrics Insight, Opinion

Digital ID In-Depth

Biometrics White Papers

Biometrics Events