Biometric firm Evermedia ups revenue 375 percent
Biometric firm Evermedia Group, Inc. announced second quarter 2012 revenue of $703,620, an increase of more than 375 percent over…
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.
AOptix raises $42 million to enhance biometric products
AOptix, a firm specializing in biometric identity verification and high bandwidth wireless communications has obtained US$42 million from a new…
Biometric id systems can keep sex offenders out of schools
If a biometric identification system was put in place in New Zealand’s schools, it could help weed out employees who…
Philippines using biometrics to curb cash grant fraud
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Eastern Visayas, Philippines will be using biometrics to combat fraud in…
BIO-key says patent suit without merit
Blue Spike, a Texas-based firm, filed a patent infringement suit against BIO-key International, Inc. on August 15, under Civil Action…
NIST sponsors biometric event in Tampa
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will co-sponsor the 2012 Biometric Consortium Conference (BCC 2012), September 18-21, 2012,…
Biometrics firm Human Recognition Systems hires new CEO
Human Recognition Systems, a UK-based enterprise biometric solutions firm, has today announced the appointment of John Tonkiss as the company’s…
Biometrics used to measure car racers’ response
Scientists are working on creating an autonomous vehicle, just like KITT from Knight Rider, and are using biometrics to develop…
Fingerprint attendance system for health department officers
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India has decided to use a biometric fingerprint attendance system for all…
Anonymous Taps MacGyver, Tackles Facial Recognition in Latest Video
Hacktivist group Anonymous has released another ominous video, and this time it’s about thwarting biometric facial recognition systems with a…
