Top 10 Advantages of Biometrics Technology

There is a significant demand for secured biometric identification of an individual in today’s business world. Do you know why? In today’s article, we are going to find out the ten advantages of biometrics technology:

Convenience

Identifying the right individual is very simple when you know the person, or you have to recognize him or her from a few persons. But what will happen when you have to identify a hundred or thousand individuals from thousands or millions of persons? It was challenging and even almost impossible. But biometrics technology allows to conveniently determine the right person from millions or authenticate the right one within less than a second.

Security

Biometrics technology reduces fraud activity by identifying the right person at the right time. If anyone needs to have access using biometrics, he or she will have to be present physically. You cannot lose your biometric; there is no one with the same biometric feature as you, and with the latest liveliness detection capability, it is almost impossible to spoof biometric technology with fake fingers.

Reliability

Reliability is a psychological term which is the ability to have relied on someone or something. When it comes to biometrics technology, due to its unforgettable, non-transferrable and robust security features, it increases the reliability of human identification.

Accountability

Think about a workplace where biometrics technology keeps track of the time and attendance of each employee’s. Every employee knows that buddy punching, time theft, and ghost employee attendance is quite impossible with biometrics technology. As a result, their accountability increases.

Cost Savings

Printing the ID cards or RFID and maintaining the paper-based log books or registers incur overhead costs. On the other hand, when employees get involved in time theft, their productivity reduces. Biometrics Technology doesn’t require any ID card or RFID and log book or register for identification and increases accountability eliminating time theft. As a result, the printing expense reduces as well as improving productivity reduces the overhead cost.

Read More

Comments

Iris Recognition vs. Retina Scanning – What are the Differences?

In biometrics, iris and retinal scanning are known as “ocular-based” identification technologies, meaning they rely on unique physiological characteristics of the eye to identify an individual. Even though they both share part of the eye for identification purposes, these biometric modalities are quite different in how they work. Let’s take a closer look at both and then explain the similarities and differences in detail: Retinal Scanning: The human retina is a thin tissue composed of neural cells that are located in the posterior portion of the eye. Because of the complex structure of the capillaries that supply the retina with blood, each person’s retina is unique. The network of blood vessels in the retina is so complex that even identical twins do not share a similar pattern. Although retinal patterns may be altered in cases of diabetes, glaucoma or retinal degenerative disorders, the retina typically remains unchanged from birth until death. (Source: Wikipedia) ...

Finger Vein Biometrics Identification for Membership Management Software

An article published today in the University of Vermont’s campus newspaper The Vermont Cynic reported that the campus recreation center has adopted M2SYS finger vein technology for student member identification. Tim Lewis, associate director for campus recreation made the decision to use finger vein biometrics for member identification after brainstorming ideas on how to eliminate students carrying ID cards. Happy to see our finger vein biometric identification system used at the University of Vermont through a partnership we have with Vermont Systems, a recreation and parks software provider based in Essex Junction, VT. Modern-day membership management software is designed to help create efficiencies that antiquated methods simply can’t provide. In an effort to eliminate ID cards, prevent identity fraud, and create a more convenient user experience, many membership management facilities are evaluating vascular biometrics (finger vein) for identification because of the distinct ...

Misinformation about Biometric Technology Continues to Fuel Functionality Misconceptions

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...

Biometrics Technology

Search This Blog