Although biometric technology is being consistently adopted for security measures, especially with regards to government mandates, there remains a question as to whether or not the technology will ever reach the tipping point where it’s consistently used by the mass market. As reported on SecurityInfoWatch.com, manufacturers, the government and university research facilities have done a […]

Infineon Technologies is supplying the security chips for a government smart card project in South Africa. Through Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government’s South African Social Security Agency is issuing biometric EMV/UEPS debit chip cards for financial transactions of social grants across all of South Africa’s nine provinces. Infineon provides its SOLID FLASH SLE 77 security […]

Additions include derived credentials, adding photo to chip, more contactless functionality Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications The revised draft of FIPS 201-2 has been released and several additions have been made from the March 2011 draft. Some of the more significant changes include: Adding a mandatory facial image to the smart card Additional functionality of […]

M2SYS Technology and The Integrated Systems LLC (TIS) have teamed up to provide biometric options for TIS’ clients in the Middle East. Based in Dubai, TIS will be able to add biometric access control, time and attendance, health care patient identification and AFIS security to its current product lineup. TIS anticipates this will help fill […]

DARPA is looking for the next great method of capturing fingerprint readings and believes it may have a solution in cognitive fingerprint recognition, reports Design News. Through its Active Authentication program, DARPA is trying to develop new ways to authenticate computer users through software that will identify unique users based on their behavioral traits. With […]

India’s Employee’s Security Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is launching a biometric card drive for industrial workers in Gurgaon and Manesar, reports The Times of India. The aim of the program is to have a central database of industrial employee medical histories, as many don’t possess the appropriate identification and insurance papers. The new system issues magnetic […]

The University of Calgary’s Biometric Technologies Laboratory is examining biometrics in conjunction with neural networks to understand whether different biometric measurements can stimulate security systems to improve their recognition process, reports R&D. Lab head Professor Marina Gavrilova hopes that the lab’s work will improve accuracy and the overall recognition process by simulating the brain and […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the summer 2012 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

Lumidigm is expanding yet again in the Brazilian market with a deployment of fingerprint sensors in ATMs in one of Brazil’s largest state-owned banks through its partners Diebold Brazil and Griaule. Diebold will supply the ATMs and Griaule will provide the supporting software. The initial order encompasses more than 3,500 units. With the fingerprint readers, […]

Huntsville, Ala.-based IDair wants to make it possible to capture fingerprints from almost 20 feet away, the company told the Huntsville Times. Joel Burcham, the founder of IDair, says the applications now are military, being able to properly identify someone from a great distance, but other uses will emerge. The device, which captures a single […]