Trends in Biometric Devices

Personal computing is an area where the science following bio metrics has made only really incomplete inroads. Laptops and home PCs are now being made (and have been on the market for more than a few years now) that can grant right of entry only after their registered owner passes their finger through a small scanning device. However, further than this, additional expansion really hasn't gone very far.

One part of the difficulty lies in the fact that the most easy to make use of bio metrics technologies for individual computing devices, which engage fingerprint acknowledgment and eye or face scans, simply aren't consistent enough under the tough, dynamic circumstances that most users would be working with them under. 

This problem has been made even worse by the propagation of tablets and smart phones as consumer substitutes to the far more stationary PC or laptop. Both of these are going to be used on noisy streets, in the rain and under dirty situation –all of which can lead to some serious problems with effective bio metric work ability. To GIVE just one example of what we’re describing: early efforts by companies like Nokia to create fingerprint scanning capacity on the screens of their touch phones became seriously screwy any time an owner touched the screen if it was wet or if that persons finders were dirty.

So far, we’re still seeing stagnant development in personal device bio metrics, but the near future is looking interesting as both screen and mobile device camera technology becomes sharper. News stories such as Apple Computer’s fairly recent purchase of Bio metric Technology Company Authentic for just under $400 million dollars are representative some serious interest in better bio security on the part of major tech manufactured goods players.

In the area of Police forensics, bio metrics has made a major splash. While police have been using fingerprint records to track convicted felons since at least the early 19^th century, modern police agencies have taken this old process and dramatically modernized it through heavy digitization of both fingerprint scanning and fingerprint record keeping. This has made the prints of potential criminals more widely accessible to cops worldwide.

But things don’t stop there: Bio metrics is quickly becoming a police officer’s best friend and many police organizations now also use DNA and even eye scanning technology as another method of identifying potential suspects and keeping them registered for future evidence accumulation.

Even immigration police and military organizations are getting in on the bio metric tech trend by deploying hand held iris scanning machines to their personnel in situations where either undocumented illegal immigrants or captured, undocumented rebel soldiers are rounded up and need to be quickly ID’d for future orientation.