In the increasingly digital world where we reside, keeping a piece of information confidential has become a tough task. Biometric technology, however, seems to be the way forward but lately, there have been a lot of concerns over the security that biometric technology has to offer.

Max Sound, an audio security firm, has been awarded with a US patent for audio biometric security. Max Security first filed the patent in early 2014 wherein the device they wanted to patent was named ‘biometric audio security’. The audio security firm announced on June 13 the USPTO, i.e.

Using smartphones for access control is not a new idea. Now a days, access control manufacturers are testing the mulitple scenarios and technology that can be used to open the door. In previous insight, we talked about the usage of Near Field Communication through mobile phones for access control. As the technology is improving, developers have used Bluetooth technology into access control system.

Coercing the employees to adhere to company leave policies is not an easy feat at all. And if done manually, it becomes all the more difficult for the Human Resource professional to maintain compliance and process employee leaves. In most of the companies today, leave applications, emails and phone calls are perpetually submitted by the employees.

The Technology has taken a huge leap into identification and authentication process through facial recognition. Now a days, shopping malls are installing face-scanning technology to target advertisements to individual customers at the till. In this technology, the advertisers use Amscreen’s camera to identify a customer’s gender and approximate age.

This edition of our blog post revolves around our ‘Tea Garden Biometric Solution’. In this post, we’ll be addressing the various complications involved in the process of tea plantation and how Starlink’s Tea Garden Solution helps to alleviate them. The objective of this post is to help the personnel involved in the tea production with their day-to-day chores.

It’s not even a month since the Supreme Court claimed that nothing can stall the government from making the Aadhaar necessary for non-welfare reasons. However, on Friday, 21st April, criticized the Narendra Modi led BJP government at the center, for making the unique Aadhaar a mandatory pre-requisite for availing government services, obtaining PAN card and filing tax returns.

In order to elevate the efficiency of government offices in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has provided directions to install biometric machines within the offices up to the block level. Such a move would not only mark the attendance but keep a track of officials’ in-time as well.

Before reading this article, think about your home for a minute. You use the lock and key to open your door; for accessing your email, you have to enter passwords and username. For checking the temperature of your refrigerator you need to use thermostat.

The biometric payment cards have been a long-sought technical development. Adding further security to the payment cards, it requires a user to scan its thumb while holding a payment card over a Point of Sale (POS) terminal.