HID Global announced that its RFID reader module has been chosen by German airline security provider DESKO for its Personal Identification Mini Dock (PIMD) identity-checking system. Jointly developed with Panasonic, the “3-in-1” system is designed for border-control, policing and other security applications, and includes a DESKO-designed optical character recognition (OCR) unit and a fingerprint scanner, […]

AOptix has unveiled a new iris camera aimed at the customs and immigration market. “The targeted market for this is the immigration counters within airports,” says Phil Tusa, vice president of biometrics at AOptix. “When you go through modern airports, you’ll see that the immigration counters are very nicely designed in many places, they’re consumer […]

The research firm MarketsandMarkets has released a new study of the biometrics marketplace that projects a heavy growth rate over the next four years. Advances in Biometric Technologies and Market Analysis breaks down the various modes of biometrics such as fingerprint, iris and facial and by regions such as North America, Asia and Europe. Specifically, […]

M2SYS will take part in the 2011 National Retail Federation’s Retail Big Show expo in New York. Among the offerings they plan to showcase at their booth is Bio-SnapOn, a desktop add-on solution that supports fingerprint, finger vein and palm vein and iris recognition through M2SYS’ Hybrid Biometric Platform technology. The reasoning behind why M2SYS […]

Neurotechnology has announced the release of a new software development kit (SDK) called MegaMatcher 4.0 that combines the latest versions of many companies other single mode biometric solutions to create a multimodal one. MegaMatcher utilizes the latest versions of Neurotechnology’s fingerprint software, Verifinger; iris recognition software, VeriEye, facial recognition software, VeriLook and palmprint identity verification […]

The Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR) at West Virginia University is an industry and university research cooperative that receives funding through affiliates for researching biometrics and identification technologies, says Bojan Cukic, director at the center. The center has been in existence for nine years and affiliates include 14 different government agencies and some of […]

ImageWare Systems has announced that it has been awarded a contract to perform an expansion of an existing border management system it initially installed for an unnamed country. The contract, which is valued at $37 million, is expected to start January 2011 and last for roughly a year and a half. The border management system […]

Hoyos Corporation announced a partnership with Herta Security to implement iris scanning technology in airports in an attempt to solve airline security issues and create a secure process from check-in to boarding, says Jeff Carter, chief development officer at Hoyos Hoyos and Herta are creating a pilot program to run in Barajas Airport in Madrid, […]

The Rhode Island Department of Corrections is implementing iris scanning technology at its prisons to prevent inmates from fraudulently switching identities at the time of one’s release to help other inmates escape, according to a WPRI Eyewitness News article. While the department already had plans for the system when an inmate escaped using the very […]

Mobile application developer, BluePlanet Apps, has announced it is developing a biometric security application for the Android mobile operating system, according to an Android Headlines article. Officials from the developer presented their new app, called BioLock, at the Apps World Conference where representatives from Samsung, who have expressed interest in having the app on their […]