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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.

 

Apricorn launches biometric USB drive with AuthenTec fingerprint sensor

Apricorn has announced the launch of the Aegis Bio 3.0, a biometric USB drive that safeguards data with an AuthenTec…

 

Greater Egg Harbor High School District to install biometric payment system for students

The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District in New Jersey is set to install a biometric fingerprint payment system…

 

Fault in biometric attendance system allows buddy punching at SDMC

Employees at the South Delhi Municipal Corporation in India have found a way to dupe biometric attendance machines to record…

 

Egyptian government approves smart card system for fuel subsidies

The Egyptian government has recently approved a new smart card system for subsidized fuels, originally proposed by the ministries of…

 

MMDA in the Philippines to monitor bus drivers with biometrics

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will implement a biometric system to monitor bus drivers and improve the dispatch system….

 

Central Bank and Emirates ID look to enhance co-operation, smart card applications

The UAE Central Bank and the Emirates Identity Authority have met to consider enhancing co-operation in regards to using the…

 

Fingerprint Cards receives initial order for 800,000 swipe sensors

Fingerprint Cards has just received an initial order for 800,000 units for its FPC 1080A fingerprint swipe sensor from World…

 

VoiceVault’s biometric solution scales to 1 billion authentications a year

VoiceVault has announced that its voice biometric identity verification solution has been verified by Microsoft as having the ability to…

 

HID Global partners with BehavioSec to improve fraud detection system

HID Global has announced a new partnership with BehavioSec to add a new layer of security to HID’s existing fraud…

 

Fingerprint Cards swipe sensor selected by financial information services provider

Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has announced that its technology has been selected by a financial information services provider to use in…

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