Palm vein has not been one of the modalities typically considered for inclusion in mobile devices due to scanner size and imaging challenges. But Fujitsu reduced the size of its optical scanner to just 8 millimeters so it can fit in the tight confines of a mobile device and is applying the slide-style presentment to …

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Fujitsu Laboratories launched a new biometric technology that extracts and matches 2,048-bit feature codes from palm vein image data. Vein pattern biometric modalities are not a new phenomenon, but where Fujitsu’s solution differs is in its method of using feature codes. These codes, extracted from vein images, represent the features of the biometric capture in […]

Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc. and T&W Operations Inc. have teamed up to produce Kidtrack, an access control solution designed for children to use as they take buses to and from school. Kidtrack uses Fujitsu’s PalmEntry physical access control system in the school bus environment. Children use the contactless biometric product for positive authentication and […]

BlueVault, a maximum-security storage facility, has installed Fujitsu Frontech North America’s PalmEntry Physical Access Control system at its facility in San Diego. The PalmEntry system involves contactless biometric palm scans to authenticate an individual and allow them access to a location. Fujitsu’s technology has vein sensors that use a near-infrared light to capture the pattern […]

European bank UniCredit has become Fujitsu Technology Solutions’ first major customer to order its PalmSecure authentication system, reports Computerworld. UniCredit plans to launch the palm scanners in Italy as a payment authorization method at POS terminals. The system, which it’s calling Papillon, will eliminate the need for a card or PIN and will allow enrolled […]

Orange County, California, has chosen MorphoTrak’s MorphoBIS biometrics identification system for use in the county’s law enforcement agencies. The Orange County Crime Lab will house the system and use it to provide real-time identification of suspects and criminals. The system will integrate fingerprints and palm prints and have the ability to conduct high-volume searches. Although […]

Biometric technology has been around for more than a century, with its earliest and most common uses centered in law enforcement. In the past decades, application of the technology has extended to the identification and authentication of individuals at border crossings, onto computer networks and into physical spaces. The triumvirate–finger, face and iris–remain the top […]

As schools in the United States begin implementing biometric data gathering to expedite processes such as lunch payments and bus rides, Anita Ramasastry writes on Justia that parents should also be concerned with privacy issues surrounding gathering this information on children. Ramasastry notes that a small number of schools around the nation are implementing the […]

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has started capturing and sharing palm prints along with fingerprints when fingerprinting people. As reported by WCTV, the GBI will now be able to share palm print information throughout the state as part of its expanded “Automated Fingerprint Identification System.” Many crime scene units around the state have been […]