BiometricUpdate.com editors pick top 2012 product launches
Around this time each year, the editors at BiometricUpdate.com recognize some of the best new biometric devices that have been…
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.
Belfius partners with VASCO, becomes first bank to use Belgian eID for online banking
VASCO Data Security International says it is using the Belgian eID card for its mydigipass.com platform and has partnered with Belgian bank…
Biometric Research Note: Emerging economies embracing biometric banking technologies
As the level of security breaches and transaction frauds increase day by day, the need for highly secure identification and…
Fingerprint Cards announces third Japanese design win, appoints Jörgen Lantto
Adding to an already busy couple of months, Sweden-based Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has received a third design win for its…
Identive launches new RFID tag for ID credentials
Identive Group has announced the launch of its Smartag Crypto tag, a new radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, the company…
Engineering school in Andhra becomes first state-run school to install biometric attendance system in the Indian state
Becoming the first state-run educational institution in the state of Andhra to install a biometric attendance system on its campus,…
Biometrics Institute warns of threat to privacy in widening access to National Pupil Database
Earlier this month, the Biometrics Institute, an independent international body representing biometrics users, academia and the industry have called for…
New Zealand Parliament passes Electronic Identity Verification Bill, secure online identity program set to launch in 2013
Legislation passed in New Zealand Parliament earlier this month puts a new national online identity service into motion which will…
Neurotechnology announces new large-scale multi-biometric technology and updates existing SDKs
Neurotechnology, a Lithuanian-based provider of biometric identification, object recognition and computer vision technologies has just announced the release of its…
Luzerne County controller says Kronos biometric time system allows ‘buddy punching’
A fault in a biometric workforce management solution from Kronos Inc., has allowed buddy scanning in a Luzerne County, Pennsylvania…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection