“I know his gait, ‘tis he.–Villain, thou diest!” – Othello, act V, scene 1 William Shakespeare mentioned in several plays that you could recognize a person by the way he walked. Yet it’s taken hundreds of years for researchers to discover the science behind gait biometrics and make it a viable identification tool. Professor Mark […]

DigitalPersona has announced that multiple KFC restaurants owned by the chain’s franchisees are improving their loss prevention programs with fingerprint biometrics. The new solution at the franchises across the Midwest and Southeast are replacing PIN-based authentication system with biometrics in an effort to reduce payroll fraud due to buddy-punching and bogus transactions at the register […]

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency at the Paso Del Norte Mexican border crossing in El Paso, Texas has begun work on a system that would see the use of biometrics to help wait times for those entering the states on foot, according to an Imperial Valley News article. The new system, which will […]

Lumidigm has announced that its Mercury line of multispectral fingerprint scanners has been chosen for integration into the Cheetah line of card readers from card reader developer Innometriks. Lumidigm Mercury multispectral fingerprint sensors capture fingerprint data beneath the surface of the skin so that dryness or even damaged or worn fingers create no problems for […]

Developed at first as master’s thesis through UCLA, Optimum Biometric Labs, a developer of biometric systems monitoring solutions, has released a report titled “Best Practices in Biometrics Performance Monitoring Programs.” The document primarily deals with standards, methods, processes, frameworks and tools that can be leveraged to obtain data to detect, diagnose, report and recover issues […]

Lumidigm announced that ZK Software has added Lumidigm’s Mercury multispectral biometric sensor to the LA2000 fingerprint terminal, which previously has been available only with Lumidigm’s Venus sensor. The Mercury sensor is a lower-cost alternative to the highly successful Lumidigm Venus sensor in the ZK LA2000, a fingerprint biometric terminal that has been providing multispectral imaging […]

A report released by Goode Intelligence, an information security industry research and analyst company, predicts the mobile phone biometric security products and services marketplace will grow from the 4 million users in 2011 to 39 million users by 2015. The report, Mobile Phone Biometric Security Analysis and Forecasts 2011-2015, also looks at how it sees […]

Retail Pro, a developer of retail operations management software, has announced it has struck a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS. The partnership will enable biometric on Retail Pro’s RightPOS, a point-of-sale-based management system that handles register security among other management tasks. The inclusion of biometric authentication will increase accountability of employees using the system, […]