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Multimodal biometrics on more than 600m mobile devices
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Multimodal biometrics on more than 600m mobile devices
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ultimodal biometrics from facial recognition to voiceprints will be installed on more than 600m mobile devices, including smartphones and wearables by 2021, a Juniper Research study has found. The research, ‘Mobile Biometrics: Consumer Markets, Opportunities & Forecasts 20162021’, reveals that demand from businesses for methods that rely less on hardware will raise the profile of multimodal biometrics over the next five years, in particular voiceprints and facial recognition. This comes as Nuance Communications has launched Nina ID 2.0, which adds integrated multi-factor authentication to the Nina Virtual Assistant for customer service. Introduced in 2012, Nina ID was a virtual assistant for mobile customer service with integrated voice biometrics that quickly expanded to support virtual assistant-powered customer service on web sites, within messaging apps and even via SMS. Nina ID 2.0 uses AI-powered voice biometrics and face recognition to confirm the identity of the user by the sound of their voice and/or their face. market
Precise Biometrics and Gemalto make major acquisitions
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recise Biometrics has agreed to acquire the assets of NexID Biometrics, a specialist in spoof mitigation and liveness detection solutions for the biometric authentication industry, for 32m SEK. Gemalto has agreed to acquire 3M’s Identity Management Business for $850m. 3M’s Identity Management Business comprises 3M Cogent, which provides biometric solutions with a focus in civil identification, border control and law enforcement, and 3M’s document reader and secure materials businesses.
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Biometric Technology Today
developing world
PPa will use hand geometry or palm vein print to enable identification with high reliability.
automotive NEORIS multifactor biometric identification Emerging factors drive to protect young people automotive biometrics
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EORIS, a global business and IT consulting company, has signed an agreement with itwillbe.org, an NGO headquartered in Spain, to spearhead the project to design and develop an identification tool dubbed PPa (Protection People app), a multifactor biometric identification system and data processing software that enables from any desktop or mobile device the identification and data collection of the most vulnerable social groups, for follow-up and subsequent intervention by social workers. PPa is geared toward NGOs with the aim of helping 100m street children living alone in dire conditions. This type of work is particularly challenging as it relates to young people due to their rapidly changing facial features. Besides the conventional fingerprint and facial parameters,
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number of emerging factors are driving biometrics within the automotive sector. Partnerships between automotive OEMs and wearable companies will result in faster penetration of biometrics within the automotive industry , allowing OEMs to save on biometrics related R&D expenditure, while creating growth avenues for wearables companies” according to Frost & Sullivan Intelligent Mobility industry analyst Joe Praveen Vijayakumar who adds: “New business models such as device as a service and health as a service will also emerge.” The Biometrics in the Global Automotive Industry, 2016–2025 analysis finds that OEMs and suppliers are investing in advanced biometrics based on human machine interaction concepts such as natural language and gesture recognition.
COMMENT The banking and finance sector, with its pressing need for security and robust means of identification and authentication, is blazing a trail when it comes to testing and implementing biometric technology. In this special ‘Biometrics in banking’ issue, industry experts review developments in the technology and the marketplace. Matt Smallman, SymNex Consulting, points out that following news that two of the UK’s largest banks (HSBC and Barclays) are now live with voice biometrics solutions for their retail banking customers, 40-50% of Britain’s economically active population are now in scope of some form of voice biometric. Matt provides an insider’s perspective on how we got to the current state of biometrics in banking, the realities of implementation in this environment and some considerations for the road ahead, to promote debate as to how the biometrics industry can address these challenges. Clayton Locke, Intelligent Environments, discusses why it is time for the financial services sector to accelerate biometrics adoption. In his view, the longer banks resist new technology and rely on traditional security methods, the
greater the risk of successful attacks from ever more sophisticated and organised hackers. The ATM is perhaps the most widely used touchpoint to banking services. A number of biometric technologies are now securing cashpoints worldwide. Phil Scarfo, HID Global, highlights some of the issues that vendors face in this sector, ranging from assessing which territories are leading the way in adopting biometrics authentication and the take-up rate of different biometric modalities; understanding the key features that ATM biometrics solutions need to offer in a competitive market; and assessing the ‘use cases’ so far seen of banks introducing biometric solutions to identify what can be learned. Phil sets out seven areas of focus for successful implementation of biometric technology on ATMs. There is no doubt that biometrics in banking are on an upward growth trajectory. Research and Markets has forecast that the global banking, financial services and insurance biometrics market will grow by a CAGR of 20% through to 2020. And recent Visa research found that consumers are nearly twice as likely to trust banks to store their biometric information safely (60%) than they trust government agencies (33%). Tracey Caldwell
January 2017
Multimodal biometrics on more than 600m mobile devices
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ultimodal biometrics from facial recognition to voiceprints will be installed on more than 600m mobile devices, including smartphones and wearables by 2021, a Juniper Research study has found. The research, ‘Mobile Biometrics: Consumer Markets, Opportunities & Forecasts 20162021’, reveals that demand from businesses for methods that rely less on hardware will raise the profile of multimodal biometrics over the next five years, in particular voiceprints and facial recognition. This comes as Nuance Communications has launched Nina ID 2.0, which adds integrated multi-factor authentication to the Nina Virtual Assistant for customer service. Introduced in 2012, Nina ID was a virtual assistant for mobile customer service with integrated voice biometrics that quickly expanded to support virtual assistant-powered customer service on web sites, within messaging apps and even via SMS. Nina ID 2.0 uses AI-powered voice biometrics and face recognition to confirm the identity of the user by the sound of their voice and/or their face. market
Precise Biometrics and Gemalto make major acquisitions
P
recise Biometrics has agreed to acquire the assets of NexID Biometrics, a specialist in spoof mitigation and liveness detection solutions for the biometric authentication industry, for 32m SEK. Gemalto has agreed to acquire 3M’s Identity Management Business for $850m. 3M’s Identity Management Business comprises 3M Cogent, which provides biometric solutions with a focus in civil identification, border control and law enforcement, and 3M’s document reader and secure materials businesses.
12
Biometric Technology Today
developing world
PPa will use hand geometry or palm vein print to enable identification with high reliability.
automotive NEORIS multifactor biometric identification Emerging factors drive to protect young people automotive biometrics
N
EORIS, a global business and IT consulting company, has signed an agreement with itwillbe.org, an NGO headquartered in Spain, to spearhead the project to design and develop an identification tool dubbed PPa (Protection People app), a multifactor biometric identification system and data processing software that enables from any desktop or mobile device the identification and data collection of the most vulnerable social groups, for follow-up and subsequent intervention by social workers. PPa is geared toward NGOs with the aim of helping 100m street children living alone in dire conditions. This type of work is particularly challenging as it relates to young people due to their rapidly changing facial features. Besides the conventional fingerprint and facial parameters,
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number of emerging factors are driving biometrics within the automotive sector. Partnerships between automotive OEMs and wearable companies will result in faster penetration of biometrics within the automotive industry , allowing OEMs to save on biometrics related R&D expenditure, while creating growth avenues for wearables companies” according to Frost & Sullivan Intelligent Mobility industry analyst Joe Praveen Vijayakumar who adds: “New business models such as device as a service and health as a service will also emerge.” The Biometrics in the Global Automotive Industry, 2016–2025 analysis finds that OEMs and suppliers are investing in advanced biometrics based on human machine interaction concepts such as natural language and gesture recognition.
COMMENT The banking and finance sector, with its pressing need for security and robust means of identification and authentication, is blazing a trail when it comes to testing and implementing biometric technology. In this special ‘Biometrics in banking’ issue, industry experts review developments in the technology and the marketplace. Matt Smallman, SymNex Consulting, points out that following news that two of the UK’s largest banks (HSBC and Barclays) are now live with voice biometrics solutions for their retail banking customers, 40-50% of Britain’s economically active population are now in scope of some form of voice biometric. Matt provides an insider’s perspective on how we got to the current state of biometrics in banking, the realities of implementation in this environment and some considerations for the road ahead, to promote debate as to how the biometrics industry can address these challenges. Clayton Locke, Intelligent Environments, discusses why it is time for the financial services sector to accelerate biometrics adoption. In his view, the longer banks resist new technology and rely on traditional security methods, the
greater the risk of successful attacks from ever more sophisticated and organised hackers. The ATM is perhaps the most widely used touchpoint to banking services. A number of biometric technologies are now securing cashpoints worldwide. Phil Scarfo, HID Global, highlights some of the issues that vendors face in this sector, ranging from assessing which territories are leading the way in adopting biometrics authentication and the take-up rate of different biometric modalities; understanding the key features that ATM biometrics solutions need to offer in a competitive market; and assessing the ‘use cases’ so far seen of banks introducing biometric solutions to identify what can be learned. Phil sets out seven areas of focus for successful implementation of biometric technology on ATMs. There is no doubt that biometrics in banking are on an upward growth trajectory. Research and Markets has forecast that the global banking, financial services and insurance biometrics market will grow by a CAGR of 20% through to 2020. And recent Visa research found that consumers are nearly twice as likely to trust banks to store their biometric information safely (60%) than they trust government agencies (33%). Tracey Caldwell
January 2017