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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.

 

Biometric Research Note: Asia to lead growth in biometric banking applications

Identity theft and identity verification has begun to fuel growth for biometric applications in the banking sector. Biometric technologies are…

 

FingerTec USA announces new facial recognition technology and fingerprint scanner

FingerTec USA has unveiled its newest facial recognition technology offering, the Face ID 4 and the OFIS Gateway fingerprint scanner….

 

Interview: Sher Khan, the man behind the PIPA Touch

PIPA Touch, a small biometric fingerprint scanner that fits into specially-designed phone cases has been gaining a lot of ground…

 

Cosway uses Schlage biometric workforce management solution

Cosway, a manufacturer of personal care products is now using Schlage‘s GT-400 biometric hand geometry biometric time clocks, operating on…

 

Fingerprint Cards lands second design win this week for biometric swipe sensor

Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has received its second design win this week, this time for its swipe sensor technology from a…

 

Cognitec face recognition products get an algorithm boost

Two prevalent face recognition products from Cognitec Systems, the FACEVACS-DBScan and FaceVACS-SDK are now using the B7 engine for high performance in…

 

SkyBiometry launches as Neurotechnology spin-off for facial detection and recognition SaaS

SkyBiometry, a new company providing cloud-based biometric software as a service (SaaS), was officially launched today as a spin-off of…

 

Bio-Key Settles patent suit with Blue Spike

BIO-Key International announced on Monday that it has settled the patent infringement suit filed against it by Blue Spike. As…

 

NMC healthcare adopts FingerTec biometrics for workforce management

NMC healthcare, an integrated healthcare company headquartered in Abu Dhabi has opted to use a biometric time clock system to…

 

African Bank uses Muvoni biometric solutions to combat fraud

Muvoni Biometric & Smartcard Solutions has partnered with African Bank to combat identity fraud with biometrics. The company says it…

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