Turn Your Smartphone into a Biometric Scanning Machine

How to turn your phone into a biometric scanning machine? Wouldn’t that be great if you could do it in a snap and use all the advantage of your unique biometric features to validate you on different occasions? Although we know that smartphones companies such as Apple, Samsung or LG do not allow any third party app to draw data from the biometric scanners in their smartphone, there is a way. And it is quite simple and super comfortable.

How do you turn your phone into a biometric scanning machine? You merely use facial recognition. Every smartphone has a high-resolution camera that takes the most exquisite pictures. This camera in the back or front can be easily applied to capture the facial data of a person, and that can be used to validate the identity of that person. Your phone will require a well-built application that will be able to capture and draw the facial data from the visual taken from that camera. With the app collecting the biometric data and sending it to CloudABIS™, scalable and super-fast biometric matching engine, it is just a child’s play to turn your phone into a biometric scanning machine. CloudABIS™ then will perform matching with its database and return the match to the app itself authenticating the person. Read more…

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