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.

Fla. schools use palm vein for lunch payments

Biometric technology expedites lunch lines

By Ross Mathis, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications

The Pinellas County School Board District in Clearwater, Fla. has paired up with technology provider Fujitsu Frontech North America to provide a reliable and secure method of handling school food service program transactions.

M2SYS solution implemented at another Cal State campus

M2SYS Technologies announced its RightPunch line of biometric time and attendance tracking solution, which had already been deployed to Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, has been deployed to the California State University, Fresno Association.

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.

EPC publishes new edition of m-payments white paper

The European Payments Council (EPC) has published the second edition of its “White Paper on Mobile Payments.”

According to EPC, the white paper focuses on the usage of the mobile payments in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and explores how m-payment services can be delivered through cooperation between service providers in the payment industry and players within the mobile ecosystem.

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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Vein Patterns are a Go in Tokyo