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360 Biometrics releases new fingerprint solution for small and mid-sized businesses

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

360 Biometrics has announced the release of a new fingerprint identification software solution designed for use in small- to medium-sized companies. The system, called PersonID, also enables administrators to incorporate photographs of a user in addition to any relevant identifying information so that when a match is made following a fingerprint scan, any data including the optional photograph would display.


The PersonID system is also designed for use in a number of applications that would suit its intended demographic of small to mid-sized companies including authorization, transaction, time and attendance tracking, point-of-sale authentication and physical access control.

360 touts its solution as being compatible with a large number of fingerprint readers, supporting many different versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system and is available in three different version that include stand-alone, client-server and Web-based versions. [end] 

Mobile and network security provider AuthenTec has released the AuthenTec AE2750, a fingerprint sensor designed for use in mobile commerce applications.

The AE2750 contains many features found in smart sensor designs, such as a 192 pixel by 8 pixel fingerprint sensor array. It also offers hybrid fingerprint matching on a sensor match and host match, AES, RSA and SHA encryption block and One Time Password generation. The device can mount on smart phones, tablest and touchscreen-enabled mobile devices.

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Sensor supplier Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has extended its partnership with Chinese biometrics provider Miaxis Biometrics Co. LTD to deliver biometrics products to the Chinese banking sector.

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CDS Monarch, a New York-based human services organization providing services to individuals with disabilities and their families, has installed DigitalPersona’s Pro Enterprise software and U.areU. Fingerprint Keyboards to provide secure access to electronic medical records.

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British journal Benchmark Magazine, a monthly publication about security technology, found after testing a variety of fingerprint readers, that those using multispectral imaging provide more consistent readings than those relying on optical scans only.

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