New Biometric Product Enhances Identification Process
by Andy Holtmann
Games & Technology Report
New Biometric Product Enhances Identification Process
Faster, more accurate fingerprint security solutions have recently been launched by DigitalPersona
Redwood City, Calif.-based DigitalPersona Inc., a provider of biometric authentication solutions for enterprise networks and commercial applications, has released its DigitalPersona® One Touch® I.D. software development kit (SDK). The new kit enables developers to create fingerprint biometric solutions with superior identification capability. The One Touch® I.D. SDK extends the functionality of the DigitalPersona® Gold, Gold CE and Platinum SDKs by giving developers the ability to identify people on a large scale by connecting the fingerprint to a user’s authentication and personal information.
The kit allows developers a more convenient method of fingerprint authentication by enabling applications with large data sets of fingerprint templates to perform high-speed searches on the collection of enrolled fingerprint templates. Users only have to touch a fingerprint reader to authenticate themselves, eliminating the use of an identifier such as IDs or PINS to start the authentication process.
The system’s enhanced algorithms can select a user’s identity with a fingerprint out of a data set of 1,000 prints in less than two-tenths of a second.
“Developers who create applications using DigitalPersona’s Gold and Platinum SDKs can now improve their offerings with the addition of large-scale identification capabilities,” said Chip Mesec, senior product marketing manager for DigitalPersona. “The One Touch® I.D. SDK continues in the tradition of DigitalPersona SDK products by providing secure, accurate and customer-proven fingerprint biometric tools for developers to incorporate into mission-critical applications.”
Additional features include: two-finger identification—using two fingers to perform identification, improving identification accuracy and resulting in a higher level of security; fingerprint database clean-up, enabling developers to eliminate redundant fingerprint templates and eliminate fraudulent users within data sets; template expiration, which enables developers to build annuity renewals into their systems providing identification templates limited to one-year or three-year durations; and scalable identification—data sets can be searched simultaneously to enlarge the total data set for identification.
The One Touch® I.D. SDK is priced at $499 with additional fingerprint template identification licenses starting at 50 cents. The One Touch® I.D. SDK package includes the identification development software and run time environment, two licensing tokens, and 1,000 evaluation fingerprint identification licenses. Interested parties are encouraged to contact DigitalPersona at www.digitalpersona.com or (650) 474-4000.
