Precise Biometrics says its touchless palm recognition technology has reached a false accept rate better than one in 100 million while keeping latency low, a security-performance mark for the company’s Palm Access Pro product for physical access control. A false accept rate at that level means fewer than one unauthorized person in 100 million attempts would be wrongly admitted, the kind of threshold that determines whether palm biometrics can stand alone at a secured door.
The result rests on the matching and anti-spoofing side of the system. Precise attributes the performance to AI-driven matching paired with anti-spoofing measures, and says it has used a combination of collected biometric data and synthetic image generation to keep optimizing the model. Holding latency low while pushing the false accept rate down is the balance that matters in access control, where a system that is accurate but slow creates queues and a system that is fast but loose creates risk.
“Biometrics is becoming foundational across digital and physical security, and organizations expect maximum security combined with a frictionless user experience,” said Joakim Nydemark, Chief Executive Officer of Precise Biometrics, who called the false-accept-rate result a major milestone for the company’s biometric technology. Palm Access Pro is the company’s recently launched offering for physical access environments, extending a touchless, camera-based approach that does not require a user to make contact with a sensor.
Palm recognition is a relatively recent addition to the company’s portfolio. Precise extended its biometric portfolio to include palm recognition as a touchless, device-agnostic option deployable through any camera-equipped device, building on the facial recognition line it had established earlier.
The milestone arrives as Precise completes a corporate combination that will reshape its scale. Precise Biometrics and Fingerprint Cards won shareholder approval for a merger under which Precise absorbs Fingerprint Cards, with Fingerprint Cards shareholders taking a roughly 47 percent stake in the combined company and completion expected at the beginning of the third quarter of 2026. The palm performance gain feeds into the broader biometrics and identity business the two companies are forming.
Sources: Precise Biometrics
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
