SMARTCORE, Lumidigm partner for South Korea immigration project A new immigration initiative has been instituted wherein foreign visitors to the Republic of Korea will undergo a clearance process that features SMARTCORE multi-biometric acquisition stations (MBAS) with Lumidigm multispectral imaging sensors. Upon arrival to Korean airports and seaports, foreign visitors will submit their arrival card and […]

Ultra Electronics simplify card printing, joins aptiQ Alliance Ingersoll Rand has announced that Ultra Electronics Card Systems has joined the aptiQ Alliance program. Membership to the aptiQ Alliance means that Ultra Electronics customers using Magicard Rio Pro can now print and encode high security aptiQ smart cards for use at their own site, be it […]

Winthrop University will roll out iris biometrics in the fall and is capturing the data from all incoming students as it contemplates expanding use of the security technology. The 6,170 student university will begin testing the iris scanners at Macfeat Early Childhood Laboratory School, an on-campus pre-school program where the university’s education majors are trained, […]

The Polk County school district has sparked some outrage after scanning the irises of its students – without the consent of parents or the students themselves. After installing eye-scanning cameras on school busses at three locations including an elementary, middle and high school, Polk Country schools – in partnership with Stanley Convergent Security Solutions – […]

In May, the U.S. House Subcommittees on Research and Technology held a joint hearing to discuss the state of biometric technologies, their current applications, future uses, challenges of adoption and how they can impact public policies. Chairman Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) noted that biometric technology has made inroads in business, government and industry over the last […]

The IEEE-sponsored BTAS 2013 — Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems — conference is an event that seeks to further the technology and its use cases. While the conference enables experts to submit papers, demoes and exhibitions, it’s also sponsoring biometric competitions. The 2013 installment of BTAS will feature two open competitions, the Cross Sensor Comparison […]

Facilities in the health care industry are increasingly adding iris scanning systems in an effort to improve patient safety and cut down on medical fraud, reports Bloomberg. The leading players in this field, Safran SA, Fujitsu Ltd., AOptix Technology Inc. and M2Sys Technology say that health care providers want the technology not just to make […]

AOptix unveiled Stratus, a mobile identity solution designed for the iPhone that delivers iris, fingerprint, voice, and face recognition. AOptix Stratus offers identity enrollment, identification and verification. AOptix Stratus employs familiar Apple iOS conventions and is designed to be intuitive like the iPhone. The AOptix Stratus family includes AOptix Stratus MX, AOptix Stratus App for […]

Stanley Security Solutions announced its partnership with EyeLock Inc., a provider of iris-based identity authentication solutions. EyeLock provides a suite of iris-based identity authentication solutions as an added differentiator to Stanley’s existing security solutions. The EyeLock suite enables Stanley to focus on the financial services, banking, health care, industrial, education and government sectors. EyeLock’s access […]

Homeland Security Corporation (HSCC) has created a joint venture with Sense Technologies to develop, sell and support new identification and access control products for HSCC’s product line. The joint venture will work on developing several security applications using HSCC surveillance and CCTV technologies along with biometrics and access control for positive user identification and system […]