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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.

 

ValidSoft recognized by Opus Research for voice biometrics

ValidSoft, a supplier of telecommunications-based authentication, fraud prevention and transaction verification solutions, has announced that it has been recognized by…

 

Fingerprint Cards secures massive Chinese order worth US$2.9 million

Sweden-based biometric authentication components and technology company, Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has just received an order worth US$2.9 million for the…

 

Medbox announces first medical marijuana dispensing system in Massachusetts, updates financial projections

Medbox Inc., a leader in the development of automated, biometrically-controlled dispensing and storage systems for medication and merchandise announced today…

 

PIMS gives biometric workforce management the thumbs up

The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) will introduce a biometric workforce management system to track the attendance of its over…

 

Australian SmartGates open up to U.S. passengers

Following the successful use of SmartGate system in Australia, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, along with U.S. Customs…

 

Biometrics to thwart rampant ticket scalping at India’s Western Railway

Fighting increasing concerns of illegal scalpers — or ticket touts — Western Railway in India will introduce fingerprint scanners to…

 

Belkin gets FIPS 201 certification for card reader

Belkin Enterprise, a leading manufacturer of electronic peripherals and devices for consumer, business and government markets has recently announced that…

 

BioEnable Technologies gets STQC certification for single-finger scanner, to be used in UIDAI Aadhaar project

The eNBioScan-C1, the FBI-certified single-finger scanner from BioEnable Technologies, was recently awarded Standardization Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) certification for…

 

Xerox facilitates fingerprint identification for low-income parents in Mississippi daycares

Starting in February 2013, low-income parents receiving subsidized childcare for their children in Mississippi will have to be fingerprint scanned…

 

Nintendo, 2K, Gatorade team up to measure virtual biometrics

In a recent Developer Insight video promoting upcoming video game NBA 2K13 for the Nintendo Wii U, 2K Sports producer…

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