Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Boston hotel succesfully using iris recognition

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Nine Zero first got attention with its iris scanners back during the Democratic National Convention. They were installed shortly before to ease the security concerns of DNC attendees staying at the Boston hotel.

It’s still the only hotel to have iris recognition in some of their high-end suites, making for a fast solution to that easily-misplaced and quick-to-malfuction keycard. Apparantly they also use LG’s technology to identify employees and vendors as well.

HotelChatter does a quick review[end] 

Kaba announced that Les Hôtels JARO in Quebec City, Canada has equipped five of its properties with its contactless RFID locking systems.

The hotel management company implemented ILCO 790 locks at three of its hotels – Hotel Quebec Inn, Hotel Quebec, and Hotel Must. The Hotel Palace Royal and its sister property, the Hotel Plaza Quebec, installed Saflok RT hotel door locks with Messenger LENS online wireless system.

read more »

The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a report detailing the evaluation of iris recognition software from 11 different organizations, finding that this method of identification is getting easier and faster, albeit with less accurate results.

read more »

The introduction of biometric multimodal fusion has helped lead to greater accuracy in biometric authentication, but its adoption rate is still overall fairly low, reports ZDNet Asia.

read more »

Biometrics firms Morpho and AOptix have formed a partnership to deploy advanced biometric systems targeted to border management and aviation security industries.

Under the terms of the partnership, AOptix products will be integrated into Morpho’s border management product line. This includes InSight Duo, AOptix’s combined face capture and iris recognition system.

read more »

Biometric identification and object recognition technology provider Neurotechnology has released updates to its line of Software Development Kits (SDKs) for single and multi-biometric recognition of fingerprint, face, iris and voice identification and object recognition.

read more »

CADD Emirates, a Dubai-based ICT system integrator serving many industries including the hospitality sector, has announced that it will begin replacing its hotel guest room key card systems with biometric fingerprint scanners.

read more »