The Transportation Security Administration tested a bar code ID technology at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport, according to a Security Director News report. The system printed a two-dimensional bar code on passengers’ boarding pass. Stored in the encrypted bar code is an image, such as a fingerprint, and other documentation such as driver license or […]

Source: Popular Science magazine Lumidigm, a developer of biometric sensor technology, has announced that their series of fingerprint sensors called Venus has been selected as one of the 100 items honored by Popular Science magazine for the “Best of What’s New for 2008,” an portion of their December issue that has appeared since 1987. Venus […]

DigitalPersona, a developer of biometric solutions, has developed a identity protection suite that uses biometrics to protect personal information such as online accounts, sensitive files and other personal data. The product is targeted at personal, home and business uses. The suite, Personal 4.0, operates off of any biometric modes. The application works on both Windows […]

Lumidigm and Innometriks, developers of biometric technologies, have had their biometric and smart card reader pass the Transportation Security Administration’s evaluation for trial use in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program. The product uses Innometriks’ Rhino, which is a smart card based access control system designed for rugged conditions, and incorporates multispectral imaging fingerprint technology […]

Florida-based SmartMetric has adopted the MULTOS operating system for its biometric fingerprint activated contactless payment and banking cards. The company is selling contactless cards that have embedded fingerprint scanners. In order to activate the contactless portion of the card the registered fingerprint has to be scanned. SmartMetric’s president, Colin Hendrick, said the adoption of the […]

Vascular biometrics have been a quickly growing market over the past while with major banks in Japan initially and increasingly European and American companies employing the technology first developed by Japanese technology company Hitachi, according to a Times Online article. Vascular technology is based on scanning the blood vessel pattern beneath the skin via a […]

Honeywell has announced the OmniAssure biometric reader, part of the OmniAssure contactless smart card reader range, which uses fingerprints and contactless smart cards to enable access control. Users are enrolled on the access control reader. Just use the enrollment card supplied with the reader to store the fingerprint template on the user’s card. Up to […]

The Indian government has chosen Evolis, a European-based card printer, to provide solutions for decentralized production and distribution of health ID cards. The Indian government has implemented a new health care access program for 60 million Indians living below the poverty line. This scheme provides families with health insurance values at $800 per year. The […]

Suprema, a developer of fingerprint recognition technology, has announced that their algorithms for matching and extracting fingerprint data has outperformed the other matching algorithms and 23 of the extracting algorithms tested in the Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) test performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Their matching algorithm yielded a .23% false […]

Students wishing to attend the UK under a student visa will soon need biometric identity cards. Fingerprinting is expected to begin this month for students seeking to renew their student visas. More than 50,000 students are expected to be affected. The move is meant to clamp down on fake colleges offering people a way to […]