NEXT Picks Up Further Momentum with Touchpad Design-win

NEXT Biometrics has announced a design-win that will integrate its fingerprint modules and touchpads into a medical keyboard designed for industrial use. The agreement is with an unnamed Asia-based customer, and represents NEXT’s first design-win for the touchpad segment.

Close-up of two hands shaking, silhouetted against a bright orange and blue sky background, depicting the concept of agreement, partnership or collaboration.

“The estimated order value for this design-win is in excess of NOK 3 million with planned delivery during 2025,” explained NEXT’s SVP and Head of Sales for Southeast Asia, Joshua Chiu. “Following the launch of this touchpad on keyboard, we are also working with this Asian customer on three additional touchpad projects, which are expected to be in the market in Q2 2025.”

Chiu also noted that the “promising” touchpad segment offers “significant long-term revenue potential.”

The news offers the latest signal of a successful corporate turnaround, with NEXT having taken strategic maneuvers to cut operational costs and shift its focus to high-end sensors in recent years. Last month, the firm reported very “strong and positive feedback” from partners sampling its new FAP30 fingerprint sensors, suggesting a larger addressable market than first anticipated.

Shortly thereafter, NEXT Biometrics announced a new Memorandum of Understanding with an India-based OEM that would target the law enforcement and banking sectors in Europe and South Africa, as well as the MOSIP market in Africa and Asia. That agreement, valued at 18 million NOK per year, would involve the design and manufacture of an authentication device integrating NEXT’s FAP30 sensor.

Much of the credit for this strong market interest can be attributed to NEXT’s patented Active Thermal technology, which enables a biometric mapping process that detects the natural heat differences between the ridges and valleys of a given fingerprint. The system can operate in challenging environmental conditions with a high degree of accuracy, delivering detailed images suitable for sensitive application areas.

Source: NEXT Biometrics

–

January 8, 2025 – by Alex Perala

Related News

Partners

FaceTec’s patented, industry-leading 3D Face Verification and Reverification software anchors digital identity, creating a chain of trust from user onboarding to ongoing authentication on all modern smart devices and webcams. FaceTec’s 3D FaceMaps™ finally make trusted, remote identity verification possible. As the only technology backed by a persistent spoof bounty program and NIST/iBeta Certified Liveness Detection, FaceTec is the global standard for 3D Liveness and Face Matching with millions of users on six continents in financial services, border security, transportation, blockchain, e-voting, social networks, online dating and more. www.facetec.com

Oz Forensics is the independent private vendor of robust, technology-based, and AI-powered liveness detection and face-matching solutions founded in 2017 and headquartered in Dubai, UAE. We confirm the security level of our solution by certifying the ISO-30107 Level 1 and 2 standards. https://ozforensics.com/

AuthenticID provides 100% automated identity verification and fraud detection solutions that are leveraged by companies worldwide, including 2 of the top 3 U.S. Banks, 8 out the top 10 wireless providers in North America, and 2 of the 3 credit bureaus. Using proprietary computer vision and machine learning technology, these solutions help companies accurately verify the identity of their users across retail, digital and call center environments for onboarding and ongoing re-authentication events; KYC, IAM, and more. The solutions are easy to integrate and provide customers a large ROI by stopping fraud losses, increasing customer conversion at onboarding, reducing operational costs and allowing quick and cost-effective operational scalability, all while ensuring global privacy regulations are complied with. https://www.authenticid.com/

Founded in 2007, Lakota Software Solutions is an American company with a world-renowned reputation for developing robust biometric software and systems. Our vendor-agnostic products are tailored to ensure compliance with ANSI/NIST-ITL standards and EBTS specifications, facilitate seamless integration with other biometric systems, and optimize accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. https://lakotasoftware.com/

Identity Week aims to be a significant identity industry catalyst. It’s our mission is to help accelerate the move towards a world where trusted identity solutions enable governments and commercial organisations to provide citizens, employees, customers and consumers with a multitude of opportunities to transact in a seamless, yet secure manner. All the while preventing the efforts of those intent on doing harm. https://identityweek.net/

The Biometric Digital Identity Prism is a market landscape framework designed to help influencers and decision makers understand, innovate, and implement digital identity technologies and solutions. This innovative framework for understanding and evaluating the rapidly evolving biometric digital identity marketplace is the only market model that is truly biometric-centric based on the foundational conviction that in the age of digital transformation the only true, reliable link between humans and their digital data is biometrics. https://www.the-prism-project.com

Related News

Footer

Follow Us