Physical access control and time/attendance applications are a mainstay for the biometrics industry. These systems can control access to buildings, sensitive facilities and building sites and help verify the attendance records of employees or other relevent groups of people, such as students. This section covers all the news and views in this sector…
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it intends to make Global Entry a permanent programme. Global Entry is a biometric-based U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) voluntary initiative.
The entire biometrics community has suffered from vocabulary confusion, especially in large-scale, public procurements. Help is at hand. Read this Jim Wayman article for more…
Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta Airport, located in Indonesia, has implemented new biometric immigration gates.
Plenty of progress on the standards front despite the lure of balmy weather in Phuket…
In an effort to answer the increasing number of questions being put forward about automatic facial recognition, this whitepaper by Morpho takes a general look at the technology, explores the state of the art and assesses its technical and commercial potential.
This book is a rare and exciting find in the US Library of Congress. It is one of the very earliest analyses of automated personal identity technology and was written at the birth of what we now know as the modern biometrics industry. Despite being written in 1974, the authors saw with impressive clarity many of the issues that remain today as some of the most difficult problems to solve.
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