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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: Market for electronic identity cards projected to grow

The Biometrics Research Group expects the market for electronic identity (eID) cards to reach US$5.2 billion by 2015. With the…

 

Sensible Vision launches FastAccess Anywhere 4.0 facial recognition app with full Windows 8 support

Sensible Vision, a leading supplier of facial recognition authentication software, has just released its FastAccess Anywhere 4.0 application for Windows,…

 

IDEX ASA demos fingerprint technology at CARTES

IDEX ASA demonstrated its award-winning SmartFinger Film fingerprint sensor technology at CARTES Exhibition and Conference in Paris this week. The…

 

ABT Security Systems release new wireless remote camera line

A new wireless remote camera from ABT Security Systems called Redeye allows its users to monitor remote locations anywhere there…

 

Child fingerprinting now available at two Canadian locations

Operation Kidsafe has announced its second permanent child fingerprinting location in Canada. The service provides parents with a biometric profile…

 

Morpho makes European bankcard manufacturing acquisitions

Morpho announced the signing of an agreement with American Banknote Corporation to acquire its subsidiaries CPS Technologies SAS, a leader…

 

Hospital in North Carolina using M2SYS biometric technology

Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, a non-profit health facility in North Carolina, announced that it has adopted the RightPatient multi-biometric patient…

 

Opus Research recognizes Nuance for voice biometrics solutions

Nuance Communications announced that the company has been recognized by Opus Research as the world’s leading provider of voice biometrics…

 

IriTech teams with Texas Instruments on iris recognition camera

IriTech, Inc. has teamed up with Texas Instruments to unveil the IriShield iris recognition camera powered by TI’s TMS320C6748 DSP…

 

BrandWatch develops biometrics for taggants

BrandWatch Technologies, which develops and manufactures microscopic particles called “taggants” and detection devices has completed a new detection device called…

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