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

Snowflake Technologies launches biometrics for business prototype

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Memphis-based biometrics company Snowflake Technologies launched its identity verification system which uses vein pattern recognition. The system identifies enrolled users by scanning the subcutaneous vein patterns in his or her hand by placing a in the device for a second to verify identity. The system works because, like a snowflake, no two vein patterns are alike.

“Once thought to be only part of sci-fi and government espionage movies, biometrics solutions are real and readily available to progressive companies today,” Brad Silver, Snowflake vice president of business development, said. “Forget PINS, signatures and photo IDs. You already have everything you need to confirm your identity, and it’s just below the skin’s surface.” [end] 

Vision-Box, a biometrics solutions provider, has come out with an automatic border control e-gate that supports multimodal biometric authentication.

This new e-gate is a thin system that contains vb i-match, a single sourced design that is modular and flexible and can be adapted to business requirements and infrastructure constraints that would otherwise disrupt passenger flow. It has the ability to cope with industry standards such as ICAO. The e-gate supports iris, fingerprint and facial biometrics.

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Cubic Transportation Systems and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) have entered into a collaborative partnership to research the next generation of intelligent travel technologies for cities.

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Sensor supplier Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has extended its partnership with Chinese biometrics provider Miaxis Biometrics Co. LTD to deliver biometrics products to the Chinese banking sector.

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Sim-Prints’ biometrics app for improving patient care in the developing world won the first Idea Transform Weekend held in Cambridge, UK, reports Business Weekly.

With this mobile phone-based app, health care workers can collect and check patient information in a variety of environments. The project was developed by Shruti Badwar, Mariy Chhatriwala, Toby Norman for the Global Health Hack Day in March. James Crosby, Marcos Ikegame and Gail Mayhew joined the team for this competition.

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Reportlinker.com has added a new report by Frost and Sullivan to its catalog that examines the global health care biometrics market. Called “Strategic Analysis of the Global Healthcare Biometrics Market,” this study looks at the technology around all types of biometric capture, including fingerprint, face, iris, hand and voice.

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Tyler Technologies has rolled out its new Versatrans Student Tracking product for installation in school buses to identify which students get off at which stops and when.

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