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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.

 

CIC closes funding round

Communication Intelligence Corporation (CIC), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions and biometric signature verification products, announced a new round…

 

Biometric Research Note: World’s first multilateral eID border crossing program proposed in Caribbean

Politics, bureaucracy and logistics might be delaying the world’s first multilateral border crossing program, but the concept, once it moves…

 

Free facial recognition up to snuff with specialist options

Research has shown that freely available facial recognition search engines used by popular social networks like Facebook are as reliable…

 

ImageWare Systems wastes no time in Q3, achieves multiple milestones and developments

ImageWare Systems, a leading developer of identity management solutions, providing secure biometric credential and law enforcement technologies, certainly hasn’t wasted…

 

BBC World News Horizons explores how biometrics are being used to protect identities and improve security

The Eighteenth episode of the BBC Horizons series is headed to India to take a look at how the Unique…

 

Facial recognition service profiles customer habits, age, gender

Facial recognition technology is popping up everywhere: at the border, on your phone, at a red light and now, in…

 

Biometric Research Note: Systematic process needed to implement government eID programs

Governments are under increasing pressure to effectively identify individuals and safely secure their borders. Accurately issuing and verifying the integrity…

 

Vision-Box deploys smart, self-boarding gates at Riga International

Vision-Box has completed the installation of self-boarding gates at Riga International Airport, allowing passengers to self-manage a large part of…

 

AOptix Names Scott Clark VP of Operations

AOptix, a technology innovation company that applies optics to transform identity verification and wireless communication, has appointed Scott Clark as…

 

MorphoTrust CEO named ‘tech luminary’ for leadership in identity solutions

Robert Eckel, CEO of MorphoTrust USA has been named a “Tech Luminary” by Mass High Tech and its sister publication,…

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