“The SkinPlex technology, developed and marketed by Ident Technology AG, allows a wearable identity or access control device to transmit information to data readers that the user touches by using their skin as the transmission medium, either capacitively or through direct skin contact..

The company points out that, using such a technology, car doors can be opened by the owner without the need for a key, while personal effects can be protected against loss or theft, and operators of dangerous tools and machinery can be protected by requiring safety gear to be worn before the equipment can power up. In a similar way, mobile telephones can effectively be protected by requiring a ‘near body transmitter’ before it will operate.”