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What is “Biometrics” and what kind of convenience and security can it offer us?

Biometrics refers to an automated system that can identify an individual by measuring their physical and behavioral uniqueness or patterns, and comparing it to those on record. In other words, instead of requiring personal identification cards, magnetic cards, keys or passwords, biometrics can identify fingerprints, face, iris, palm prints, signature, DNA, vein or retinas of an individual for easy and convenient verification. With the boom in Internet-based business and the increased need for accurate verification when accessing accounts, biometrics is the simplest and most convenient the solution. Its universal, unique, permanent and measurable features ensure security of information in E-commerce, such as banking and online shopping malls.

Biometrics can also provide you with convenience and security, by enabling a machine to verify the individual by itself and to respond to the individual’s requests. Through the use of such physical controls as access control, and punch card maintenance, user restrictions on certain apparatus can be made possible with an automated verification system.

Why fingerprints

The biometric verification systems that are currently being used include: fingerprint, iris, voice, retina face, hand, vein and signature. Out of all of these, the Iris can return the most accurate results. But since it requires the system or device to come very close to the individual’s eyes, it a less desirable method of verification. In addition, such devices or systems tend to be expensive and bulky, putting limits on its practical application.

A typical voice recognition system is usually more affordable, but it’s not always reliable because the human voice is subject to changes due to illness, hoarseness, or other common throat problems. This system is also subject to extraneous noises in the surrounding area, static, and communication conditions.

Since faces have different dimensions and features depending on the angle, expression and age, a face recognition system is not likely to be of much practical use.

The hand recognition system tends to take too much space and has a high return rate of False Acceptance (FAR). Therefore, this system is rarely used in highly security zones. There are also cost problems in its administration, as well as concerns over access to confidential information.

Vein recognition can guarantee top security because it is almost impossible to duplicate an individual’s vein. But it also has limits in practical application because its hardware structure is extremely complex, and the entire system costs a lot of money.

The results with a signature recognition system, like the voice recognition system, are easily affected by various factors, and therefore it is not reliable at all.

Fingerprint recognition has long been favored among many biometric identification technologies due to its uniqueness and permanence. Nowadays, fingerprint recognition is considered to be the best choice for most applications from network security systems to compact devices, due to its accuracy, speed, reliability, non-intrusive interfaces, and cost-effectiveness, resulting in acquiring 50% of the shares in biometric markets.

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