Toronto law firm to use biometrics for employee time tracking
A Toronto law firm will soon begin to use fingerprint scanning technology to monitor its employees. McCague Borlack LLP recently…
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.
Schiphol Airport to process 1 million passengers through e-gates
E-gates at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam have processed nearly one million passengers and is on target to reach that milestone…
Cross Match CEO releases statement at London biometrics event
David Buckley, CEO of Cross Match Technologies released a statement on the benefit of biometric technology during the Biometrics Exhibitions…
U.S. gov’t sponsors new predictive surveillance technology
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed new surveillance technology that watches human activity and predicts what will happen next….
UK police force licenses, markets new fingerprint technique
A UK police force has made thousands of dollars in royalties from its biometric invention. The Northamptonshire Police invented the…
Taxi drivers at Delhi airport issued biometric ID cards
Delhi Police are testing a biometric ID card program at Indira Gandhi International Airport to track and control airport taxi…
Texas State University to patent and license oculomotor biometrics
Oleg Komogortsev, a researcher at Texas State University in San Marcos, has developed a new eye scanning method that arguably…
Bolivia to secure borders with biometrics, using Cuban aid
Bolivia will use biometrics to increase security measures at its border crossings. The Latin American country has inked an agreement…
Westminster Group supplies x-ray machines to Biometrics & Security Company
Westminster Group PLC recently announced that it has secured a contract for the supply of x-ray baggage scanning systems to…
Lumidigm fingerprint readers now SAP certified to combat fraud
Lumidigm, Inc., a biometric company dedicated to enabling convenient, secure, and reliable identification and verification, announced that its fingerprint readers…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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