IBG certifies three new biometric technologies

The International Biometric Group (IBG), a New York-based leading integration and consulting firm, has certified three new biometric products through its Biometric Performance Certification program. Fujitsu’s PalmSecure (vein recognition) Hitachi’s UB READER (vein recognition), and IrisGuard’s H100 (iris recognition) all passed a series of tests designed to analyze real-world functionality, false match and false non-match rates, ergonomic concerns, and operational deployability.

Investors and purchasing officers should take note: Of the three certified technologies, IBG was particularly impressed with Fujitsu and Hitachi’s vascular recognition systems. Such approaches, which recognize human users by using a sophisticated high-tech recognition algorithm based on vein patterns in the hand, correct some of the problems associated with fingerprint scans, including their inability to pick up data from scarred fingers. The IBG tests proved this right. The low failure to enroll and failure to aquire rates of the Fujitsu and Hitachi systems were much lower than analysts expected, as were their comparatively short enrollment transaction duration and recognition attempt duration.

Indeed, although vascular recognition has not been very popular in the United States, IBG concludes that the technology “appears to be a very serious competitor to fingerprint, hand geometry, and certain iris recognition systems used in large-scale 1:1 access control, logical access, and consumer ID applications.”

-read more in this IBG PDF report

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