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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.

 

Dragnet Solutions launches biometric scholarship and bursary management system

Dragnet Solutions has just announced the launch of its Scholarship and Bursary Management Service (SBMS) system, which relies on fingerprint…

 

Biometric smart cards for prisoners in India

The Ministry of Home Affairs prisons department in India is set to introduce a smart card for all prisoners, which…

 

Will the next iPhone feature biometric fingerprint technology? Signs point to yes.

It’s widely anticipated that the next iPhone will feature a fingerprint scanner, and there are a lot of signs pointing…

 

Citibank launches smart ATMs with biometric capabilities in Asia

Citibank has just announced the launch of “Citibank Express,” an ATM with biometric capabilities for customer identity authentication. According to…

 

Morpho subsidiaries in India get ISO certification

Morpho (Safran) has announced that two of its Indian subsidiaries have received ISO certification. Namely, Smart Chip Ltd. has secured…

 

Nigerian hotel owners stand by NTDC biometric decision

Hotel owners have come out backing the decision to install biometric workforce management systems in Nigeria’s hotels by the Nigerian…

 

Smart Card Alliance Identity Council appoints new members, announces focus for 2013

The Smart Card Alliance Identity Council has announced that in 2013 it will focus on providing guidance and leading practices…

 

South Dakota School of Mines & Technology partners with Nexus USA to pilot biocryptology payment system on campus

The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology and Nexus USA have partnered on a unique biometric program to allow…

 

Coca-Cola, Unilever use facial coding to measure ad effectiveness

Unilever and Coca-Cola will use facial coding technology to assess the emotional impact their ads in 2013, MediaDailyNews reports. The…

 

Bridge Community Bank adopts TASCET biometric identification and verification system

Bridge Community Bank has announced it is adopting the TASCET Financial ICONN privacy solution to streamline the banks online and physical customer…

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