Security companies lack of IT expertise slowing biometrics adoption
Retail and enterprise companies have been slow to adopt biometric security measures of various modalities including fingerprint readers, finger vein…
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.
Smith Groups sells its share in Cross Match for $77 Million
Smiths Group, a global technology company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has sold its minority holdings of Cross Match…
Apple to purchase AuthenTec for $356 million
Last week, Apple entered into an agreement to purchase AuthenTec Inc. for approximately US$356 million. According to a SEC filing,…
Aware Inc. reports Q2 2012 financial results
Aware, Inc. reported its second quarter financial results, with a net income of $54.9 million or $2.49 per diluted share….
Daycare centers using biometrics to protect kids
Concern about the security of children in childcare centers has caused many facilities to adopt biometric security systems across the…
eduKan and BioSig-ID make presentation during the Sloan-C Symposium
Sloan Consortium is holding its fifth Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technologies for Online Learning in Las Vegas, Nevada between…
Problems plague Kenyan electoral biometrics contract
The true identity of the biometrics company, Symphony, has been put in question amid claims that it was registered more…
BioEnable releases latest Fingerprint SDK for free download
BioEnable Technologies, a leading Indian company specializing in advanced electronic identification software, recently released its BioEnable Fingerprint Software Development Kit….
Report predicts the fate of biometrics for the next five years
A new market research is now available in the catalogue of Reportlinker.com. The recent report is titled “Global Biometrics Market…
Silicon-based fingerprint sensors market projected to grow
Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA), a leading publisher of off-the-shelf market research released a comprehensive global report on the silicon-based…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection