Biometrics Technology

Think of the number of things in use today for controlling access to anything; keys, cards, passwords, PINs, and the list goes on. Biometrics is the key to a key-free world, where you don’t need to memorize anything or carry multiple access devices, since the access device is you. With biometric technologies like fingerprint scanning, facial and voice recognition, and even iris recognition becoming popular in smartphones, authentication can be made more secure and convenient. In fact, many  smartphone  apps already use biometric authentication for authorizing payments. As with any emerging technology, there is a world of possibilities as well as a few concerns: Social Impact  – Biometric technologies scan biological patterns which are unique to an individual to identify them. They are so accurate and individual that law enforcement agencies and judicial systems around the world have used them for over a century. This makes many people skeptical, since collect...

D eployment of a biometric identification system can be quite overwhelming for a non-technical company. Since they do not have technical knowledge of integrating a biometric system, they have to hire a team of professionals to build, integrate and maintain a biometric system, which can be quite expensive and time-consuming as well. Here is top three choices for biometric software for windows 10, that is not only easy to deploy but also quite affordable. CloudScanr™ Looking to save with a biometric capture tool? How about a web-based solution that can integrate all your biometric hardware? I am talking about  CloudScanr ™  – a cloud-based biometric hardware integration service. It supports most of the biometric hardware from major manufacturers, so you will never get locked into one biometric modality or a single vendor. With a unique universal plugin, it removes all the hassles and friction associated with the configuration of third-party hardware. The service is av...

A visitor management software is supposed to make your life easier by reducing paper works, increasing security and improve efficiency by eliminating the need for manual log keeping. So, when it comes to choosing a visitor management software for your organization, it is essential that you select a system that will fulfill all your needs unique business needs and equipped with all the groundbreaking features. Today we are going to take a look at some of the best features to look for while choosing a visitor management software in 2018: Pre-Register Visits Customizable Software Digital Badges Biometric Technology Digital Agreement Form Capture all the relevant information Flag Troublemakers Third Party App Integration Analytics and Reporting Scalable So, let us know if you agree with these top 10 list of visitor management software features in the comments section. If you are thinking about investing in an excellent visitor management system that checks all the necessa...

Biometric technology is on everyone’s lips today. Every day we hear media stories about governments using facial recognition to issue visas and passports, banks adopting voice recognition to authenticate users, and cars using fingerprint technologies to rev up. Let’s find out which examples of biometrics are leading the biometric revolution. Fingerprint Phone Unlocking Human Data Megabases Passport Control Immigration and Naturalization Driver Recognition Online banking identification Digital Tourism Retail Biometrics Entry Access The Big Brother Evolution  ( whereas China continues building  robust biometric technology on a government level to recognize each one of its 1.3 billion citizens – and even foreign residents.)   You can read the details from here .

HCI Group is a global leader in healthcare IT consulting services. They provide a learning opportunity for staff and physicians by licensed trainers to receive training. But they couldn’t track their trainers visiting hours, their true identity and their duration at the office. Which was causing safety issues, delay in training hours and a massive loss in productivity? So they were looking for a solution to manage their visitors. Safety Plus, another company, have to facilitate visitors for providing customer support, partner support, community visits, and its employees. In many cases, they required multiple entries in highly secure areas within the premises. These entries required keeping a log and identity verification through which they could track their visitors as well as check their authorization status. Both these companies were also looking for a solution which can be accessed from several checkpoints using laptops and mobile devices with a high level of security and efficie...

Think about a device that you can carry anywhere, so compact that you can keep it in your pocket, and through that portable device you can collect the most accurate data from any remote location. From voter registration to suspect identification, from large data collection to small data collection, from a remote area to urban places, the mobile biometric scanner is the most sought-after device for these type of projects. Finding the most suitable portable biometric scanner can be a difficult task if you don’t know about the most useful features. To make your life easier, here we have put together five of the essential elements you must consider when buying such a device for your project. Powerful Battery In the field level identity project, you will hardly get any chance to recharge your portable biometric device. Besides if your device stop working in the middle of the work think about the nightmare you have to go through. To avoid this hassle, you must look for a device that has...

In 1892 Francis Galton wrote a book called fingerprint. Fingerprint was the first book that put light on the importance of fingerprint identification in human life. It shows how fingerprints can be used as unique identity tools. In 2018 we experienced the transition of the future world. Where we experienced self-driving car, AI, the revolution of drone and robots, and digitalization of every aspect of our life. At the same time till this date, we still faced issues like identity theft, password breach, bank transaction breach and many more. These issues are continuously putting importance to such system that is unique, remain unchanged and impossible to breach. Not only that such unique features were placing importance to modernize more approach for business and government agencies that could make their operation easy, secure and efficient than ever before. Yes, we feel the importance of the fingerprint identification system in 2018 and will explore its essential in 2019 too in many ...

Today, we came across the following blog post from Guy Huntington at Infosec Island: “What Happened to My Biometric?” In the post, the author discusses the inherent dangers of opting into a biometric identification system by providing your fingerprint and the possible negative privacy and identity theft consequences if a user does not make sure that their biometric template is deleted from the system if they leave or opt-out. Our take:  While we are always pleased to see biometric technology pop up in the news or through blog postings, we often cringe when we see these types of articles that essentially do not accurately depict biometric technology, and leave readers with ill-conceived perceptions about how the technology actually works. Anyone who works in the biometric industry can attest to the fact that there is never an image of a user’s fingerprint stored. The truth of the matter is that biometric enrollment templates stored on a server are not actually an image of t...

The Nursery Rhyme and its Application to Biometrics Most of us are probably familiar with the popular nursery rhyme “ The Itsy Bitsy Spider .”  It goes like this: The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Up came the sun, and dried up all the rain, and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again. Wow.  That is one resilient spider and it got us thinking…this spider reminds us a lot of biometric technology. As biometrics for identification has evolved from forensics into government and enterprise applications, there have been growing pains along the way.   Fingerprint technology  was the first “spider” modality to hit the mainstream and as it climbed the biometric “water (aka market) spout” end users realized that it had certain limitations.  For example, environmental conditions and fingerprint integrity limited its ability to identify a certain percentage of the population and as a resu...