This week has brought the industry’s focus to London, England, where the 16th annual Biometrics Exposition and Conference was hosted, while the world of mobile biometrics continued to expand at an encouraging rate.
During the exhibition, we were on the receiving end of some launch announcements, notably in the areas of fingerprint technology, with DigitalPersona, fresh off of its acquisition of Identity Stream, introducing its new FAP 20 and FAP 30 U.are.U fingerprint modules. Peter O’Neill, president of findBIOMETRICS had a chance to catch up with DigitalPersona CEO Rich Agostinelli about the company’s current initiatives and the big verticals: healthcare and finance.
M2SYS, working with Hitachi, combined two finger based biometrics, fingerprint and finger vein, on a single hybrid authentication units to serve those big verticals, as well as other markets that need strong and efficient multi factor security. The simultaneous dual-biometric authentication that the device offers one-to-one and one-to-many verification.
Of course, when talking about fingerprint biometrics and deployment in finance and government, it’s only a matter of time before Lumidigm becomes a topic of discussion. The makers of multispectral fingerprint scanning technology have recently partnered with Zetes in providing biometric visa’s to the country of Senegal. A contract from the government that spans five years will have applicants enrolling fingerprints via the two Lumidigm V-Series sensors built into the enrolment terminal.
Touching back on the topic of healthcare, this week saw the acquisition of ClaimSync by GenKey. The purchase is to bring end-to-end solutions with a focus on fraud prevention to what has been referred to as a frontier market for biometrics.
Meanwhile, over at our sister site Mobile ID World, the mobility market is still in the middle of exploding. Fingerprint Cards AB published its Q3 2013 results, breaking its record once again with the strongest period in the sensor manufacturer’s history. It is no surprise that this is the case, of course, with mobile biometrics popping up on phones all over the place.
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