Biometrics is the automated method of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. Biometric technologies are becoming the foundation of an extensive array of highly secure identification and personal verification solutions.
What are the main types of biometric systems?
The main physical biometric technologies include:
- fingerprint
- iris
- retina
- hand
- palm vein
- face
When we recently heard that purveyor of luxury men's goods Alfred Dunhill was selling a secure
biometric wallet, we were intrigued: who wouldn't want a carbon fiber billfold that only opened with your fingerprint, and alerted you when it lost Bluetooth contact with your cellphone? Cost to the consumer: $700. Sounded like a pretty good deal, at least until we were hepped to a little something called the iWallet.
A high-tech sensor technology that can identify an individual by sensing the unique electronic signals generated by their brain waves, beating heart or breathing patterns. According to the press release from Idesia, the Biodynamic Signature (BDS) sensor is smaller and more durable than normal fingerprint readers, not to mention more reliable and cheaper to manufacture.
Those simpler sensors have made inroads into the manufacturing plant environment, and for good reason. Magnetic cards or PINs that grant employee access to off-limits areas or files, or monitor time cards/attendance etc. are vulnerable to social engineering tricks as new as password hacking and as old as one of the oldest tricks in the book, the “buddy system” for punching factory timecards.
Those simpler sensors have made inroads into the manufacturing plant environment, and for good reason. Magnetic cards or PINs that grant employee access to off-limits areas or files, or monitor time cards/attendance etc. are vulnerable to social engineering tricks as new as password hacking and as old as one of the oldest tricks in the book, the “buddy system” for punching factory timecards.
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