The Palm Beach County, Fla., school district is considering implementing biometric fingerprint scanners for a variety of student functions, including bus service, library usage, attendance and lunches. As written on EdWeek’s Digital Education blog, the school district surveyed its principals and found that 60% wanted to add biometrics for a variety of student uses. Based […]

The U.K.’s Post Office Limited has enrolled more than 1.5 million individuals in its Applicant Enrollment Identification (AEI) service that collects biometric information for identification. The AEI service utilizes 3M Cogent Biometric Enrollment Stations (CBES) to capture applicants’ fingerprints, photographs and digital signatures for use by various clients, including the Driver Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) […]

Brazilian biometric technology and service provider Griaule Biometrics has released the 2.0 version of its Griaule Biometric Framework biometric cloud service. This new release incorporates cloud and local services on its user interface to integrate biometric information into any application. The framework can enroll fingerprint, face and voice biometrics, and it has the capability to […]

The U.S. federal government has placed an order with Precise Biometrics for the Tactivo smart casing for smart card and fingerprint authentication to mobile devices. It plans to use Tactivo for several pilot projects across many federal government military and civilian agencies. Tactivo enables companies and organizations to migrate authentication to mobile devices and it’s […]

Voter registration issues and people being turned away at the polls means the U.S. market might be ready for Biometric Voter Registration, IVN reports. BVR entails voters participating in a form of biometric analysis such as fingerprint or iris scanning, the outcome of which hopefully includes them on the voter roles. The article states that […]

British market research firm Goode Intelligence predicts in its new report “Mobile Phone Biometric Security – Analysis and Forecasts 2011-2015” that mobile biometric security will be an essential feature on all smart mobile devices. This prediction builds on Goode’s previous forecasts that the mobile biometric security market would grow to 39 million users by 2015. […]

Holzer Health Systems in Gallipolis, Ohio, has purchased a $1.5 million biometric patient tracking system in hopes of curbing prescription drug abuse. As reported in the Chillicothe Gazette, the health system partnered with the state and CrossChx for the fingerprint identification system. Holzer is collecting fingerprints from urgent care and ER patients who volunteer their […]

Apple announced the acquisition of AuthenTec for $356 million. AuthenTec provides embedded fingerprint scanners and associated identity management software as well as digital rights management software. Does this mean that Apple devices will start coming equipped with fingerprint scanners for access? It’s not immediately known. Alan Goode, founder and managing director at Goode Intelligence, a […]

Frost & Sullivan has released a report entitled “Indian Biometric Readers Market” that predicts the countries biometric reader industry will experience a 48% compound annual growth rate by 2016. In 2011, this market was valued at $50 million, and it’s predicted to grow to $359 million over the next four years, driven by increasing security […]

Playhouse Child Care Center in Sartell, Minn. has installed a fingerprint identity system to avoid unauthorized personnel from gaining access to their facilities, according to a report in USA Today. Playhouse Child Care already employed the use of a keypad security system that required parents and employees to provide a four-digit code to enter the […]