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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.

 

Soul2Match claims to use biometrics to find love connections

Soul2Match claims that U.S. President Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama have a compatibility score of 84 percent. Soul2Match is a…

 

Spoofing threatens biometrics security

Spoofing is something that biometric security providers dread. While we enjoy spoofs on television, this is no laughing matter when…

 

Can biometric technology reign in India’s corruption?

Biometrics technology is expected to reign in India’s rampant corruption, especially where poor laborers and migrant workers are concerned. A…

 

Workforce management tools let corporate workers work at home

Working from home used to be a breeze. You would have total control of your time. Bosses did not dictate…

 

Fast fingerprint processing to cost more for Ontario volunteers

Expedited criminal record checks that utilize biometric fingerprint processing for volunteers in Ontario will cost much more than traditional criminal…

 

Dispute over Jamaican employees surrendering fingerprints

According to a recent article in The Gleaner, large Jamaican companies are using biometric systems to ensure that their employees…

 

Biometrics used to measure media consumption habits

Time, Inc. recently conducted a media consumption study that utilized biometrics to measure consumer engagement. “As a multiplatform media company, we…

 

Sony awarded vein-reading biometrics patent

According to an article in Engadget, Sony was awarded a series of patent claims for a vein-reading mouse it filed…

 

Prototype consumer camera to integrate eye-tracking biometrics

Every year, more and more technological advancements and breakthroughs are being conceptualised and developed. On such anticipated breakthrough is the…

 

ForensicaGPS is the new tool against crime

Reviewing grainy video footage from cheap closed circuit television cameras known as CCTV used to be a huge headache for…

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