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Fujitsu unveils new palm vein scanner

Monday, March 1, 2010

Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc., a supplier of computer products including peripherals and biometric security solutions, announced the PalmSecure LT for single sign-on device, a compact, cost-effective version of the company’s palm vein recognition technology.

PalmSecure LT for SSO technology utilizes biometric authentication for single sign-on access to provide customers in the health care, financial services, government and other industries with logical access control solution. Fujitsu will showcase PalmSecure LT for SSO solution as well as its other offerings in the PalmSecure portfolio during HIMSS10 Annual Conference & Exhibition, March 1-3 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.


The Fujitsu PalmSecure LT for SSO solution offers biometric technology with a competitive price point, enabling customers to enhance security while remaining within a certain budget. Fujitsu partners with leading SSO solutions providers—including the recently announced integrated solution of the Fujitsu PalmSecure palm vein recognition technology with IBM’s TAMESSO software—to bolster security and compliance efforts by enabling consumers, government agencies and private-sector organizations to replace archaic password structures with a single path of access that resides in the palms of users’ hands.

PalmSecure technology uses a near-infrared light to capture a user’s palm vein pattern, generating a unique biometric template that is matched against pre-registered users’ palm vein patterns. It is a contactless authentication technology that offers an easy-to-use, hygienic solution for verifying identity.

This vascular pattern recognition solution is reliable and in a form factor that is non-intrusive and generates extremely fast authentication. PalmSecure LT for SSO device connects via USB to any PC or laptop. The SSO interface included enables users to enjoy the simplicity associated with SSO functionality while adding robust biometric authentication to enhance security.

The PalmSecure LT for SSO device is now available for purchase for around $200. [end] 

Japanese security and biometric technology developer Ayonix has introduced its new palm-vein scanner called PalmSecure.

PalmSecure operates as a contactless biometric authentication device by utilizing near-infrared light to take a picture of the unique vein layout in an individual’s hand and subsequently authenticate their identity. The contactless, and consequent hygienic, aspect of it has Ayonix expecting popularity in the health care sector for their device.  

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SmartLinx, an India-based telecommunications company that specializes in Voice-Over-IP (VOIP), has announced it has integrated palm vein scanners from biometrics developer Fujitsu into their SmartVM system.

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Frost & Sullivan has recognized the PalmSecure palm-vein authentication device from biometrics developer Fujitsu with its 2010 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation.

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M2SYS Technology has released a multi-modal biometric software solution called the Hybrid Biometric Platform. The Hybrid Biometric Platform is a client/server system that supports the use of fingerprints, finger veins, palm veins and iris recognition as a form of biometric authentication with the system designed so that customers are not locked into one biometric mode should they decide to change or add new modes in the future.

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M2SYS Technology announced an alliance with Fujitsu Frontech North America that aims to grow the adoption of PC-based palm vein biometric recognition systems. Under the partnership, M2SYS has added support for the Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric authentication system to its Bio-Plugin biometrics platform.

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M2SYS Technology, a developer of biometric technology solutions, has announced it has reached a partnership agreement with Boriana Ltd. that will see Boriana distributing M2SyS technology.

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