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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.

 

FPC to Develop Asic for CrucialTec following Biometric Track Pad Success

Fingerprint Cards (FPC) and CrucialTec have signed its second joint development and production agreement in the span of one month….

 

Time Clock Express Now Selling uAttend Workforce Management Solutions

Online store Time Clock Express is now a certified online reseller of uAttend time clocks and tracking software services. TimeClockExpress.com…

 

Palm Vein Authentication to Identify Smartphone Charging Festival Goers

Vodafone’s VIP Recharge Truck is in high gear to take on 2012 festival season. Vodafone has always provided festival goers…

 

IDair Launches New Touch-less Fingerprint Scanner

Fingerprinting continues to dominate the biometric markets in most sectors, especially law enforcement, national security and businesses. However, the use…

 

Corps Security and HRS Partnership Brings Better Security Services

Monitoring company Corps Security (CS) and biometrics solutions company Human Recognition Systems (HRS) recently announced a joint partnership. As renowned…

 

Biometrics Company Aware Inc. Closes Sale of Patents to Intel

Aware, Inc., maker of biometrics software products and services, announced Thursday that it completed the sale (previously announced on April…

 

Fingerprint Scanner used for Welsh High School Access

Amidst criticism surrounding the use of biometrics in schools, a north Wales high school has fingerprinted its pupils in order…

 

Voice Biometrics Improve with New Human Machine Interface Coprocessor

Spansion Inc. and Nuance Communications Inc. have unveiled Spansion Acoustic Coprocessor, the industry’s first human machine interface (HMI) coprocessor that enables…

 

Biometric Fingerprint Scanning for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

The recently approved medical marijuana dispensing in Connecticut is embracing fingerprint scanning for safer and more controlled distribution to patients….

 

CLEAR Expands DFW Airport with Fingerprint Scanners

Yesterday, BiometricUpdate.com reported that CLEAR fast-pass lanes have returned to San Francisco International Airport, and today, CLEAR has expanded its…

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