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Biometrics Institute expands, seeks alliances

Friday, July 29, 2011

The Biometrics Institute, an Australian non-for-profit industry organization, has announced plans to increase its promotion of biometrics by expanding both its physical presence and its networking reach.

The Institute has opened an office in London, where the Institute’s General Manager Isabelle Moeller, has relocated. This office will help the Institute bring together its European membership and facilitate networking within the biometrics industry in Europe.


To facilitate this expansion, the Institute will host an invitation-only full-day meeting in London in October that will gather vulnerability assessment experts from around the world.

The Institute has also finished a government-funded privacy code for the Australian biometrics industry and a vulnerability assessment framework. It plans to expand these services to Singapore and the U.K., as it seeks further networking opportunities in these areas of the world. [end] 

Vision-Box, a biometrics solutions provider, has come out with an automatic border control e-gate that supports multimodal biometric authentication.

This new e-gate is a thin system that contains vb i-match, a single sourced design that is modular and flexible and can be adapted to business requirements and infrastructure constraints that would otherwise disrupt passenger flow. It has the ability to cope with industry standards such as ICAO. The e-gate supports iris, fingerprint and facial biometrics.

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Reportlinker.com has added a new report by Frost and Sullivan to its catalog that examines the global health care biometrics market. Called “Strategic Analysis of the Global Healthcare Biometrics Market,” this study looks at the technology around all types of biometric capture, including fingerprint, face, iris, hand and voice.

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DigitalPersona Inc. released a new version of its DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise software that includes facial recognition as a method for authentication.

Facial recognition can now be combined with fingerprint biometrics, passwords, PINs, proximity cards, smart cards and OATH tokens for a multi-factor authentication solution. Policy creation and enforcement works through a client’s existing Active Directory infrastructure.

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M2SYS Technology has released an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) that enables the storage, search, retrieval, processing and editing of biometric data and subject records. The new system is built on multi-modal architecture, enabling users to combine the biometric matching of a fingerprint with that of an iris, face or palm print.

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