September 7, 2013 – by Peter B. Counter
The last half of the Summer in biometrics has been all about mobility, and the first week of September, as we see the approach of a big Apple announcement, the Biometrics Consortium Conference and Biometrics UnPlugged, was no different.
Because the authentication and authorization industries have been striving for solutions to our increasingly mobile and social world, findBIOMETRICS has launched a new portal: Mobile ID World. As the sister site to this one, Mobile ID World will be taking on the news of mobile identity verification and the discussions surrounding that, allowing findBIOMETRICS to hone in on the exclusive, cutting edge biometric news to come.
Starting with the non-mobile news, Lumidigm announced early on this week that its multi-spectral imaging technology will be featured in a New Guinea medical clinic that serves citizens and missionaries. The modular solution will allow patients of the clinic to sign in using fingerprints, and tie them to up-to-date electronic health records. This comes as quite a boon to the clinic staff, who until now have been facing a population that was largelt unable to spell names due to illiteracy in the region.
Still on the healthcare side of things but closer to home, AMC Health was awarded a $28.8 million contract this week by the Department of Veteran Affairs to provide telehealth services to United States Veterans, allowing for patients to receive proper care and monitoring from home thanks to networked biometric devices and M2M technology.
Those who haven’t yet left the military will also be benefiting from biometrics, with Cross Match Technologies donating a large number of hardware and software solutions to the United States Naval Academy. The in-kind donation includes ten-print fingerprint scanning devices, iris scanning technologies and the newest version of Cross Match’s WEBS enrollment software.
On the topic of access and identity, Illinois firearms instructors will be required to undergo biometric background checks in order to be certified. This new stipulation comes courtesy of Accurate Biometrics, holders of the Illinois Master Fingerprinting contract, having received approval from state police to perform the checks.
Meanwhile at our newly launched sister site, an interview with Frost & Sullivan’s Jean-Noel Georges sheds some light on mCommerce and biometric payment protection we keep hearing about as Fingerprint Cards AB added yet another design win, this time for a smartphone set to launch Stateside in early 2014.
All of that plus: special guest contributor Darrell Geusz helps put risk reduction into perspective, NIST updated the personal identity verification standards for federal workers, and BlackBerry committed to the cause of open strong authentication protocol by joining the FIDO Alliance.
Be sure to stay up to date on all of the dynamic biometrics and mobile ID news. Follow @MobileIDWorld and @findBIOMETRICS on Twitter to stay in touch with all authentication and authorization news, not to mention live reporting from next week’s biometrics conferences in Tampa.
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