Hand and fingerprint readers cover 80 percent of biometric access control applications. They are complementary, as each meets specific needs in the market. When using these two technologies under a ...

The widespread belief is that finger, face, and voice authentication are the epitome of security. But those technologies are not as safe as we think, according to nVIAsoft officials, who point out ...

CAMPBELL, Calif. – Biometric hand readers from Recognition Systems Inc. of Campbell, Calif., are currently used in many airports around the world, including those in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Israel ...

CAMPBELL, CALIF. – July 12, 2006 –Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that it is using an advanced plastic technology to reduce the spread of micro organisms from people using its ...

CARMEL, Ind.—Students at the Peck School of the Arts on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus funded a project that led to the installation of Schlage HandKey readers at the six-building ...

In 1996, William Beaumont Hospital, a 254-bed community hospital in Troy, Michigan, had a problem: A small number of rogue employees were taking narcotics from a storage area without authorization.

It seems like an annual ritual. The biometrics industry-whose devices use biological characteristics, like fingerprints, voice and iris patterns, to verify a person's identity-announces that the ...

The cost of putting biometric security in place is not exorbitant, says Mr. May. Each hand reader costs about $2,500, and the turnstile to which it is connected costs $8,500 to $9,000. The ...

“Although our Titan Recreation building is only a little over a year old, we started using the biometric system about 1 ½ years ago so that everyone could start getting used to the system,” says ...