What is biometry?
The usage of contemporary electronic facilities, i.e. cash dispensing machines, mobile phones, or PCs, is inconceivable without safety systems. Passwords and PIN codes use used to prevent fraudulent use. The deluge of PIN numbers and passwords for ec- and credit cards, online banking, and any form of online services increases the individual transaction costs and it is getting evermore difficult to find one’s bearings in a progressively interconnected world. The introduction of the internet, eCommerce, mCommerce has brought on the end of exclusive control for physical identity documents, i.e. passports, identity cards, and driving licences. When it comes to new media, biometrical identification procedures are predestined to become the norm in the authentication and assessment of identity. Alternatives have become indispensable to cope with the increasing complexity and the individual overloading brought on by memorisation processes.
A promising approach consists in the use of biometric identification procedures which rely on identification or verification through person- or body-specific characteristics. Biometric identification procedures are user-friendly and more convenient than having to memorise passwords or carry keycards or transponders. Biometric systems enable a low-priced and fast identification for a large variety of applications.
Biometric procedures use the abilities of computers in connection with sensors or other recording equipment to measure and evaluate human body- or behavioural characteristics. The goal of biometric recognition consists in extracting relevant information about body- and behavioural characteristics, in order to determine the identity of a person (identification), or to confirm or disprove their alleged identity (verification). Authorised individuals are thus separated from unauthorised ones. A biometric system is essentially based on pattern recognition.
The term ‘biometry’ is composed of ‘biology’ and ‘metric’. Biology is the science of living beings and the regularities and characteristics of living creatures.
Biometric methods feature a variety of procedures: finger picture, finger geometry, face, hand geometry, iris, retina, speech recognition, signature detection, and vein recognition. All of these are subject to very different technical properties and success metrics.
The correct combination of procedures ensures both, security and convenience.
We primarily use fingerprint terminals for access control and time recognition. The video surveillance solution VDG allows for biometric personal and facial recognition, for instance in relation to access control.
What is biometry? The usage of contemporary electronic facilities, i.e. cash dispensing machines, mobile phones, or PCs, is inconceivable without safety systems. Passwords and PIN codes use...
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What is biometry?
The usage of contemporary electronic facilities, i.e. cash dispensing machines, mobile phones, or PCs, is inconceivable without safety systems. Passwords and PIN codes use used to prevent fraudulent use. The deluge of PIN numbers and passwords for ec- and credit cards, online banking, and any form of online services increases the individual transaction costs and it is getting evermore difficult to find one’s bearings in a progressively interconnected world. The introduction of the internet, eCommerce, mCommerce has brought on the end of exclusive control for physical identity documents, i.e. passports, identity cards, and driving licences. When it comes to new media, biometrical identification procedures are predestined to become the norm in the authentication and assessment of identity. Alternatives have become indispensable to cope with the increasing complexity and the individual overloading brought on by memorisation processes.
A promising approach consists in the use of biometric identification procedures which rely on identification or verification through person- or body-specific characteristics. Biometric identification procedures are user-friendly and more convenient than having to memorise passwords or carry keycards or transponders. Biometric systems enable a low-priced and fast identification for a large variety of applications.
Biometric procedures use the abilities of computers in connection with sensors or other recording equipment to measure and evaluate human body- or behavioural characteristics. The goal of biometric recognition consists in extracting relevant information about body- and behavioural characteristics, in order to determine the identity of a person (identification), or to confirm or disprove their alleged identity (verification). Authorised individuals are thus separated from unauthorised ones. A biometric system is essentially based on pattern recognition.
The term ‘biometry’ is composed of ‘biology’ and ‘metric’. Biology is the science of living beings and the regularities and characteristics of living creatures.
Biometric methods feature a variety of procedures: finger picture, finger geometry, face, hand geometry, iris, retina, speech recognition, signature detection, and vein recognition. All of these are subject to very different technical properties and success metrics.
The correct combination of procedures ensures both, security and convenience.
We primarily use fingerprint terminals for access control and time recognition. The video surveillance solution VDG allows for biometric personal and facial recognition, for instance in relation to access control.
