AOptix unveiled Stratus, a mobile identity solution designed for the iPhone that delivers iris, fingerprint, voice, and face recognition. AOptix Stratus offers identity enrollment, identification and verification. AOptix Stratus employs familiar Apple iOS conventions and is designed to be intuitive like the iPhone. The AOptix Stratus family includes AOptix Stratus MX, AOptix Stratus App for […]

Winners of the CARTES Asia 2013 SESAME Awards have been chosen. The Asian SESAMES Awards rewards the best projects in 3 categories: Card technology, manufacturing, personalization, covering everything that relates to the card technology and manufacturing process, and its personalization, and provisioning until final delivery to the card holder. Hardware, including readers, validators, and more […]

Innometriks has added a new identification validation reader to its portfolio. Called the Rhino Touch, the reader is a result of a partnership with Lumidigm to incorporate fingerprint sensors into its features. The Rhino Touch is an identification validation reader that’s designed for high-security applications that require multifactor authentication. It offers a configuration for U.S. […]

While mobile payments continue to proliferate, a new startup is examining the use of biometric payments. PayTango, created by four students from Carnegie Mellon University, promises quick and easy payments through using fingerprints to identify and authenticate transactions. Soon-to-graduate students Brian Groudan, Kelly Lau-Kee, Umang Patel and Christian Reyes came up with the idea through […]

Lumidigm announced that Alfapass, the provider of the security smart card system at the Ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge in Belgium, is replacing the older biometric system at the ports’ registration stations with Lumidigm V-Series multispectral imaging fingerprint readers. The Port of Antwerp is Europe’s second largest port and Alfapass is in the process of […]

Fujitsu and ImageWare Systems Inc. have signed a contract to deploy a new cloud-based, multi-modal biometric identity management product and model. The new solution is built on Fujitsu’s Global Cloud Platform and utilizes ImageWare’s CloudID products and multi-modal Biometric Engine. These companies will license these products on a service or transactional basis. With the partnership, […]

Stanley Security Solutions announced its partnership with EyeLock Inc., a provider of iris-based identity authentication solutions. EyeLock provides a suite of iris-based identity authentication solutions as an added differentiator to Stanley’s existing security solutions. The EyeLock suite enables Stanley to focus on the financial services, banking, health care, industrial, education and government sectors. EyeLock’s access […]