UAE announces world’s largest biometric database
The Emirates Identity Authority announced yesterday that it possesses the world’s biggest database of biometric information, with around 103 million…
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 iris-based biometrics aid Qatar border control
AOptix, a technology innovation company that applies optics to transform identity verification and wireless communications, recently announced results from the…
IrisGuard launches new iris recognition camera for banks
IrisGuard Inc. recently announced the release of its latest iris recognition imager, the EyeSign. The EyeSign is a next generation…
New share issue from Precise Biometrics oversubscribed
Precise Biometrics, a supplier of solutions for fingerprint recognition, announced the successful completion of a rights issue with preferential rights…
SecuGen fingerprint reader certified for India’s UID Project
SecuGen Corporation is pleased to announce that its Hamster IV fingerprint reader has been certified by the Standardization Testing and…
Smartmatic assists Venezuela conduct national election
As technology supplier for the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE), Smartmatic worked successfully to fully automate the national election process…
Lifestyle Fitness using ievo fingerprint pod for access control
Lifestyle Fitness is now using fingerprint access control pods from ievo to improve its access control systems across its facilities…
Gadspot to sell security cameras with facial recognition in North America
Gadspot, a premium provider of affordable video surveillance products, announced the launch of the first-ever intelligent security cameras in North…
Vision-Box S.A. demos products at ICAO event
Vision-Box S.A., a leader in automated border control systems and electronic identity solutions, will be exhibiting at the International Civil…
Cairo Amman Bank uses biometrics to register 100,000 customers
Cairo Amman Bank (CAB) recently deployed a flagship biometric solution from IrisGuard Inc.. The customer-oriented iris biometric authentication solution, known…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection