Biometrics to enable mobile phone money transfers
Mobilis Networks Limited has launched fingerprint verification for international money transfers via mobile phones. This service is currently being rolled…
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.
Expert says South Africa ahead on biometric uptake
South Africa is ahead on biometric uptake. That pronouncement emerged from a briefing for financial sector representatives conducted in Johannesburg…
Indian city to use biometrics to curb absenteeism at health centers
The health department in Chandigarh, India is up in arms against the rising complaints of absenteeism in health centers and…
EyeVerify Closes the Lid on A $1.4M Seed Capital Round
EyeVerify, an eye vein biometrics software company, recently announced the closing of a $1.4 million seed funding round. The company’s…
Biometric security now available for SAP
Secugen fingerprint readers now work in combination with bioLock software from Realtime North America Inc., to provide a biometric identity…
BIO-Key & Medflow providing biometric solutions to eye clinics
Recently, BIO-Key International and Medflow Inc. implemented biometric authentication solutions for several eye care facilities, namely: Canton Ophthalmology, East Michigan…
Biometrics to bring proper IDs to India
The Unique Identity program of the Indian Government has, so far, been able to successfully enroll about 200 million citizens. …
Vodafone festival cellphone recharge truck to use palm vein readers
Vodafone has announced that it will be using palm vein readers in its popular cell phone recharge truck that will…
Smart Card, Fingerprint Reader Launched for iPhone
Precise Biometrics recently unveiled its Tactivo product. The Tactivo is a smart card and fingerprint reader designed for the iPhone….
Spanish Hotel to use Fingerprint Payment System
The Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel in Spain has begun a trial of PayTouch, the world’s first fingerprint payment system. Instead…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection