Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

M2SYS, Fujitsu partner to bring palm vein to the desktop

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

M2SYS Technology announced an alliance with Fujitsu Frontech North America that aims to grow the adoption of PC-based palm vein biometric recognition systems. Under the partnership, M2SYS has added support for the Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric authentication system to its Bio-Plugin biometrics platform.

Bio-Plugin enables software companies to integrate and deploy an enterprise-ready biometric recognition system without the development and ongoing support challenges that are associated with low-level biometric software development kits.


Software companies that want to adopt Fujitsu palm vein biometric authentication system can now do so within hours, accelerating time-to-market and reducing software engineering and maintenance costs.

Fujitsu PalmSecure technology uses a near-infrared light to scan beneath the skin’s surface to capture a user’s unique palm vein pattern, resulting in extremely low occurrences of both false positive and false negative readings despite dry, rough, or generally poor skin conditions. This contactless authentication technology offers an easy-to-use, hygienic and non-intrusive solution that generates fast identity verifications. [end] 

Fujitsu Laboratories has announced it has developed a biometric technology capable of utilizing both palm vein patterns and fingerprint patterns of three fingers simultaneously.

Additionally, the organization is touting that the system is capable of authenticating an individual within two seconds of a scan and can be utilized as a brand new system or by upgrading existent fingerprint systems with palm vein collection hardware.

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M2SYS Technologies announced its RightPunch line of biometric time and attendance tracking solution, which had already been deployed to Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, has been deployed to the California State University, Fresno Association.

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Morpho announced that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) has signed an agreement that will see Morpho providing two more years of maintenance and support for the agency’s automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS).

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Hitachi partnered with Turkey-based banking company Isbank to bring biometric identification authentication to roughly 3,400 ATMs in Europe.

While the new network of biometric ATMs, which utilize Hitachi’s finger vein scanning technology, is the largest in Europe, it is far from the largest worldwide where Japan has embraced the technology and installed more than 75,000 finger vein-based ATMs.

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Biometric technology expedites lunch lines

By Ross Mathis, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications

The Pinellas County School Board District in Clearwater, Fla. has paired up with technology provider Fujitsu Frontech North America to provide a reliable and secure method of handling school food service program transactions.

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The Pinellas County School District, seated in Clearwater, Fla., has deployed biometric technology to provide a more reliable and secure method for handling school food service program transactions.

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