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St. Louis fitness centers move to biometrics

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Identica Holdings Corp., developer of vascular biometric technology, is partnering with HID Global, a security technology developer, to provide new palm-vein scanners for access control in Club Fitness centers, a chain of fitness centers located in the St. Louis area. Identica will be incorporating HID’s contactless smart card technology into their vascular hand scanners.

Identica’s VP-II scanner utilizes patented recognition algorithms to capture and encrypt individuals’ unique vascular patterns on the back of the human hand.

The individual presents HID’s iCLASS card, which stores an encrypted template of the user’s unique vascular pattern on the card, to the reader. The user then presents his or her hand to the scanner and the live vascular pattern is matched to the stored template, identifying the individual in 0.1 seconds, verifying their identity and that they are a Club Fitness member.

The VP-II units deployed at Club Fitness are equipped with Identica’s WeatherShield heated outdoor enclosures, supporting operation in all weather conditions, as well as free-standing pedestals where secure wall mounting is not possible. The new systems are currently in use at three Club Fitness locations and expected to be implemented into another eleven soon. [end] 

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