United States – RSA Security, the security division of information management solutions provider EMC Corp., has introduced a new voice authentication product designed mainly for banks and other financial institutions. The Adaptive Authentication for Phone (AAP), which includes voice biometrics, was developed to provide a more effective automated telephone banking service and to prevent telephone banking fraud.
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A Scottish school has turned to biometrics as part of a nationwide push to encourage children to eat healthier meals.
The cafeteria at Todholm Primary School in Paisley, Scotland, has gone cashless, and students are buying lunches by holding their hands over a palm-vein recognition unit produced by Glasgow-based Yarg Biometrics. It’s the first school to [...]

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Here you can find information on real smartcards which have a real microprocessor inside the card. There have been many different small microprocessors used inside smartcards including 8031/51 variants, PIC microcontrollers and some pecial microprocessors just designed for smartcard applications. Very many smartcards communicate using the protocols standardized in ISO 7816 standard.
The ISO7816 Standard define [...]

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Memory cards are the simples type of smartcard. Memory cards only have some amount of memory inside the card and this memory can be normally read and written. There is normally nothing relly intelligne inside those cards. Typically the memory inside this kind of cards is EPROM, EEPROM or FLASH memory. This card type is [...]

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Though the technology for the biometric is mature, hand geometry is projected to be one of the slowed growing biometric technology through 2007. Because the range of applications in which hand geometry is typically limited to access control and time and attendance, it will draw a progressively smaller percentage of biometric revenues. Overall, hand geometry [...]

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RSI hand geometry scanners verify identity at the front entrances of over half the nuclear power plants in the U.S. At the 1996 Olympic Games, RSI’s units were integrated with the Olympic Village security system to process millions of transactions, with minimum delay.The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) uses RSI hand geometry scanners to [...]

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Among biometric technologies, Sandia reported that hand geometry had the highest user acceptance of all devices tested. With a high level of security, ease of use, and non-threatening technology, hand geometry has become the most widely accepted biometric technology in use today.
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Recognition Systems Inc. significantly enhanced biometric technology for its hand scanners. By maintaining a low False Reject Rate (the probability that the device will reject an authorized user), while maintaining a high deterrent to unauthorized access, RSI’s units process large numbers of people with minimal delays.The crossover of False Reject and False Accept rates for [...]

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Static design - as opposed to other biometrics, which can take advantage of technological breakthroughs like silicon development or camera quality, hand scan has remained largely unchanged for years. Its size precludes it from being used in most logical access scenarios, where compact design may be a prerequisite. 
Cost - hand scan readers cost approximately [...]

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Strengths
Ease of use - the submission of the biometric is straightforward, and with proper training can be done with few misplacements. The only may be elderly clientele or those with arthritic hands, who may be unable to easily spread their fingers and place their hand on the unit’s surface. The unit also works fairly [...]

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