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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.

 

Banque Accord testing biometric payment system in French supermarkets

For the last five months, Banque Accord has been running a pilot scheme, which involves several hundred volunteers testing a…

 

Acroprint launches new workforce management solution with facial recognition

Acroprint Time Recorder Company has launched a new time and attendance solution using facial recognition. timeQplus FaceVerify is a time…

 

Washington police praise mobile fingerprint scanners

Washington state’s King County Sheriff’s Office has started using MorphoIDent pocket-sized scanners by Safran Morpho to instantly read fingerprints of…

 

European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards 2013 applications open

The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) has announced its seventh European Biometrics Research and Industry Award 2013. These prestigious, annual…

 

ID World International Congress debuts in Frankfurt

The 11th ID World International Congress event took place last week in its new home of Frankfurt, Germany. More than…

 

VoiceVault fights back against voice biometrics fraudsters

Last Friday, VoiceVault released performance results of its latest voice biometric replay detection platform. For the financial services industry, these…

 

UK school to use fingerprint for payment in cafeteria

Helston Community College in Cornwall will begin to use a fingerprint-based cashless payment system for its cafeteria and food services….

 

Validity Sensors to receive $20 million for biometric technology

Validity Sensors Inc. announced that it has secured approval for US$20 million in venture capital financing for its fingerprint sensors….

 

Medbox to establish pharmaceutical biometric device division

Medbox, Inc., a leader in the development, sales and service of automated, biometrically controlled dispensing and storage systems for medicine…

 

Human Recognition Systems to exhibit at UK biometrics event

Human Recognition Systems has announced that it will exhibit at this year’s Biometrics 2012 Exhibition between October 29 to 31,…

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