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A wave at biometrics

At the recent ISCW show in Las Vegas, the MorphoWave Compact by IDEMIA won the Security Industry Association, New Product Showcase (SIA NPS) award for User Authentication, Identification, Credentialing & Management. This is the most recent of multiple awards won by IDEMIA’s growing range of MorphoWave products, starting with the SIA NPS Award for the MorphoWave Tower in 2015, beating over 110 other product entries.

We have five fingerprints on each of our hands, and each one is unique. In the past, it was difficult to scan more than one finger in an access control environment due to cost, time and usability. MorphoWave technology scans all four fingers in 3D with a simple wave of the hand. This touchless technology also ensures that approximately 30% more data per finger is captured than with traditional systems. The high-speed acquisition technology of MorphoWave also captures multiple samples of each finger as the hand passes through the capture volume. All of this translates into a system which has roughly 50 times more data to match against for every transaction, when compared to traditional systems.

The major breakthrough with MorphoWave is that all this extra, higher quality data, is even easier for the user to provide than with a single finger contact fingerprint sensor. All that is needed, is a simple wave of the hand.

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