RegardingID Archive | Vein Patterns are a Go in Tokyo

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Finger vein biometrics may just be the unsung hero of the industry. No one talks about it much, they just skip right to fingerprint or palm geometry. But veins offer a very ideal biometric to identify with, and the technology to detect them is appearing in more places in Japan than ever.

For starters, HitachiSoft has developed the industry’s smallest finger vein authentication system, saying it’s 1/3 of the usual size of other devices. Read the press release.

In another annoucement, Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions will soon have available an ATM with finger vein identification. Most likely this incorporates the system they released above (the picture in the link does appear to be similar.)
Read the announcement.

Another Japanese bank has already begun to use ATMs equipped with such a system. This one reads vein patterns of palms. Read about Suruga bank’s palm scanners.

This month, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi should be installing the vein pattern recognition ATMs at 250 of its branches. Read the press release here.

Fujitsu develops new multi-modal authentication device

Fujitsu Laboratories has announced it has developed a biometric technology capable of utilizing both palm vein patterns and fingerprint patterns of three fingers simultaneously.

Additionally, the organization is touting that the system is capable of authenticating an individual within two seconds of a scan and can be utilized as a brand new system or by upgrading existent fingerprint systems with palm vein collection hardware.

BT, Hitachi partner for financial services market

BT and Hitachi Europe Ltd. announced that they are jointly designing an identity management solution for the financial services market. In this move, BT is introducing BT Unified Trading federation, a cloud-based trust utility for secure identity exchange and will incorporate Hitachi’s Finger Vein Authentication Engine and technology to offer biometric security capabilities.

New partnership makes biometric finger vein scanner available in U.S.

In order to release its H1Biometric Finger Vein scanner to the U.S. market, Hitachi Europe Ltd. has signed a strategic partnership with M2SYS, making the company Hitachi’s primary Value Added Reseller for this product in North America.

Hitachi partners with Isbank for largest network of biometric ATMs

Hitachi partnered with Turkey-based banking company Isbank to bring biometric identification authentication to roughly 3,400 ATMs in Europe.

While the new network of biometric ATMs, which utilize Hitachi’s finger vein scanning technology, is the largest in Europe, it is far from the largest worldwide where Japan has embraced the technology and installed more than 75,000 finger vein-based ATMs.

Korea-Japan NFC coupon service goes live April 1

Korea’s KT and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo have announced that their international NFC coupon service will go live on April 1.

The first product to come out of last year’s agreement between the two telecos, the NFC “roaming” coupon service will enable KT subscribers traveling to Japan to use NFC coupons at select stores within Japanese airports and shopping malls in downtown Tokyo.

First NFC store opens in Tokyo

Japan’s Fukumi Corporation has opened the world’s first physical shop for NFC tags, applications, starter kits and printing and encoding services in Yaesu, Tokyo.

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