New mobile biometric modalities, new sensor technologies and the world’s first contactless biometric payment card, were important hallmarks of the biometric year of 2017. This was a year when stronger identity proofing became a priority hot topic. As 2017 is getting closer to its end, we can look back at a year where biometrics left […]

The challenges and opportunities of biometrics in payments, which is undergoing rapid growth, was the subject of a panel discussion with four leading industry players at Trustech, the large trade show for smart cards, payments and security in Cannes. Contactless payments with biometric smart cards came up as one of the hot topics during the […]

Charles Yang´s job is to advise Precise Biometrics’ Chinese customers on how to integrate the company’s fingerprint software to get world-class biometric performance.

The adoption of spoof and liveness detection software in mobile biometrics is becoming a priority among payment providers, OEMs and regulators to mitigate fraud via fake fingers, which poses a threat to sensitive applications like mobile payments. The advent of new biometric technologies such as ultrasound sensors will also improve liveness detection with retained user friendliness. […]

In a poll, the industry publication Find Biometrics asked 165 professionals in the biometrics and identity related industries about various topics and trends. The one thing that stood out, was that more than 90 % agreed that “liveness detection” was an urgent area of improvement in the biometrics industry. The ability for a sensor to […]

Precise Biometrics was born 20 years ago out of an idea by Christer Fåhraeus, a brilliant Swedish IT and biotech entrepreneur. He wanted to develop a powerful fingerprint software algorithm that could operate effectively on a platform with limited processor power and memory, such as mobile phones and smart cards. “Back in 1997 I saw […]

Machine learning (AI) is a key success factor behind Precise Biometrics spoof and liveness detection solution. Tim Swyka, Product Manager at Precise Biometrics US office in Potsdam, NY, is responsible for overseeing this suite of products. “To get the best results for our customers, we work with them from the initial vulnerability analysis to the […]

The tag line for Mobile World Congress 2017 in Shanghai was “The Human Element”, addressing what mobile products and services will shape our human behaviour in the future. The event was also an attest to the focus on the need of secure and trustworthy identity authentication, considering that the majority of all transactions by 2020 […]

Today, in the run-up to one of the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, and in front of journalists from tech and business media, we had the pleasure of announcing the launch of a new ground-breaking security suite. The security suite contains products and services that increase the security […]

The market for mobile devices using fingerprint technology is growing as more and more devices are being equipped with fingerprint technology and consumers increasingly demand biometrics for convenient identity authentication. Increased volumes and competition is driving the development towards smaller fingerprint sensors to reduce cost of implementing fingerprint solutions. This enables use cases and segments that […]