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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.

 

Islamabad Courts use Biometrics Attendance Systems

The Islamabad District Courts have been equipped with biometric time attendance systems to ensure that personnel from the Judiciary arrive…

 

U.S. cities increasingly using BRS Labs’ Biometric Surveillance

San Francisco is poised to become the latest city using AISight software to detect suspicious activity. Behavioral Recognition System Labs…

 

Aisin Group develops Biometrics System to Reduce Traffic Accidents

One of Japan’s leading automotive parts manufacturers, Aisin Group, has developed a prototype of what it proposes to be the…

 

TechConnect will host Biometrics Forum next week

The Times West Virginian reported there will be a forum next week determining how to move West Virginia’s biometrics industry…

 

M2SYS Hosts Monthly Biometrics Twitter Chat with VoiceVault

Tomorrow, voice biometric solutions company VoiceVault, will be the special guest on the monthly M2SYS Twitter discussion, “#biometricchat“. Nic Stanbridge,…

 

Facebook’s Biometric Facial Recognition Feature Comes Under Fire

Facebook’s facial recognition feature has come under fire from Irish regulators and now Germany as well. However, the German privacy…

 

Intel’s Facial Recognition Freaks Out Potential Customers

Revolutionizing how advertisers capture their target audience, Intel is developing facial recognition software for television. The set top box is…

 

Precise Biometrics Hires New Chief Commercial Officer

Late last month, Thomas Marschall, CEO and president of Precise Biometrics announced the new chief commercial officer and executive vice…

 

Fujitsu Combines Palm Vein and Fingerprint Verification

Recently, Fujitsu revealed the creation of the world’s first biometric system that combines both palm vein recognition with fingerprint verification….

 

Microsoft Files Biometric Emotion Monitoring Patent

This week, Microsoft filed a patent for tracking systems that detect a user’s emotions to match online advertisements to moods….

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