Saturday, April 3, 2010

Biometric Devices: What are they?

A biometric device is defined as a device that allows or denies authentication of users after scanning and identifying physical characteristics through voice recognition, fingerprints, retina patterns and others.

One of the most well- known forms of biometric devices are fingerprint recognition devices. With this type of device, a person must place their finger on a scanner while the device scans and reads their fingerprint to identify if it is in their system, granting or denying access.

Biometric devices are an efficient and effective innovation as they are easy, fast and provide extremely accurate results. There is no longer a need to type in passwords, which may be accidentally passed on to others who should not be allowed access. Most importantly to organizations, they provide high security as it is impossible to replicate human characteristics as they are all unique.

There are two types of biometrics, which are categorized as physiological and behavioural. Physiological biometrics relate to a humans body, such as fingerprints, face and iris recognition, and many others. The benefits of this type of biometric are that no one can duplicate another human’s body part, as it only belongs to them. Behavioural biometrics are connected to the unique behaviours of a person. Examples of this are writing style, voice, walking patterns and others. The benefits of this type of biometric are that behaviours can only be learned by a human overtime, it is impossible to copy any of these with the exact same amount of accuracy.By using either of these types of biometric devices, it is easy to identify a person and trust that it is them as none of their characteristics can be imitated.

In all, biometrics are quickly becoming one of the greatest technologies, for their security, convenience, reliability and accuracy.


Sources:

"What Are the Functions of Biometric Devices? | EHow.com." EHow | How To Do Just About Everything! | How To Videos & Articles. Web. 07 Apr. 2010. http://www.ehow.com/facts_6087565_functions-biometric-devices_.html

"Biometric Device: Definition from Answers.com." Answers.com: Wiki Q&A Combined with Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedias. Web. 07 Apr. 2010. http://www.answers.com/topic/biometric-device

"How Biometric Devices Work | EHow.com." EHow | How To Do Just About Everything! | How To Videos & Articles. Web. 07 Apr. 2010. http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5230747_biometric-devices-work.html

"Biometrics." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 07 Apr. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics

Image: http://www.infotronics.com/news/assets/article/article_files/bilde.jpg



1 comment:

  1. This is the first time I came to this blog and I found some relevant stuff here. Basically I keen to know new parameters of writing every-time and sometime it become really very hard to find such kind of platform.
    paxton product in nigeria

    ReplyDelete