Biometrics goes mobile
Physorg.org: Hoping to capitalize on the rapid growth of the $1.5 billion global biometrics market, United Kingdom-based technical solutions company xVista has developed an iris-scanning system that can be housed within compact low-power computing systems such as camera phones.
“The xVista technology performs a similar task to the traditional signature, photograph or pin number in confirming an individual’s identity, but is far more reliable,” remarked xVista Managing Director Karlis Obrams, who formed the company back in 2000. “The fact that the system can run from portable devices like the mobile phone and SIM card opens up fantastic potential for its use, making it far more effective than other scanning systems that are usually bulky and limited to fixed points.”
According to xVista, the technology that scans and maps the iris for individual characteristics uses a unique algorithm designed specifically to be operated on low-power computing devises such as a phone with a standard 256 MB mobile-phone memory card — which is able to hold over 250,000 separate iris templates and from a database of 1,000,000 irises could take less than one second to verify an individual iris.
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