Japanese professors design infrared glasses to thwart facial recognition
Two Japanese professors have designed a pair of glasses to thwart facial recognition systems, using simple near-infrared lights only visible…
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.
Australian firefighters stay cool with biometric pill
Firefighters in Australia have helped to test a new swallowable capsule from Equivital that wirelessly transmits core body temperature and…
Biometric Research Note: Biometrics projected to cut bank operational risks by 20 percent
The Biometrics Research Group projects that the implementation of new biometric technologies in the banking industry has the potential to…
Biometrics Conference in Istanbul to take place May 29-30, 2013
Istanbul’s Biometrics Conference is set to take place May 29-30, 2013 in Istanbul and promises to tackle many of the…
Sony to say goodbye to DualShock, hello to biometrics
Sony may soon be retiring the Playstation’s DualShock controller in favour of a new biometric solution, an unnamed development source…
Biometric fitness, healthcare applications featured at Consumer Electronics Show
While only a limited number of biometric products and services were featured at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show last week,…
SwipeClock to offer Schlage biometric time attendance device
Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies recently announced that SwipeClock, a Web-based timekeeping solution provider and manufacturer of TimeClock, WebClock, FlexClock and VoiceClock,…
McDonald’s using DNA-based security system in Australia
In an effort to crack down on theft at McDonald’s locations in Australia, the fast-food restaurant chain has hired a British…
SecuGen demonstrates fingerprint technology at CES
SecuGen Corporation, a leader in advanced optical fingerprint recognition talked about its Android compatible Hamster Plus fingerprint readers and soon-to-be…
Global Entry to be introduced in Saudi Arabia
Global Entry, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection program that uses biometric verification to allow expedited clearance for pre-approved, traveling low-risk…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection