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Moving to the Door Biometrics makes its way across the enterprise
Biometrics have rapidly ex- panded into our daily lives, as millions of people use fingerprints to unlock their mobile phones, access cash through ATMs, and verify their identity in a growing range of use cases. This mainstream adoption is also driving the increasing de- mand for biometrics at the door and across the enterprise for physical and cybersecu- rity. These applications benefit from biomet- rics’ ability to fuse convenience and security while validating “true identity” versus one’s
identity that is associated with possessing an ID card or mobile ID on a smartphone.
Bringing Biometrics to the Door
A number of challenges have had to be solved to bring biometrics to the door. The biggest is the environment where biometric solutions must operate for these applications. In the real world, people have wet, dirty, oily, dry or worn fingerprints that have been dif- ficult to capture and read with previous bio- metrics technology. As a result, earlier finger-
print biometrics solutions for physical access control are often deployed with reduced se- curity thresholds because their lower-quality imaging technology leads to false fingerprint rejections that create long authentication lines at the door.
The latest fingerprint reader/controller solutions solve this challenge to deliver up to 99.9 percent accuracy in fingerprint image capture, leading to much higher matching speeds and better overall performance—re- gardless of the fingerprint conditions. This level of reliability, coupled with the security
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