{"id":8823,"date":"2018-06-19T06:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/?p=8823"},"modified":"2022-06-21T01:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T05:00:44","slug":"the-history-of-biometrics-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/biometric-resources\/the-history-of-biometrics-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Biometrics: History, Origin & How It Affects Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just hearing the term biometrics, we draw a picture of the fingerprint in the back of our mind, but, originally biometrics is a term related to our human body itself. The original term \u201cBiometrics\u201d actually refers to measurements and different sorts of calculations that are related to the human body. It is the measurement of human characteristics in a matrix form. Biometric measurements are unique and irreversible depending on their types. This is why in modern day identification biometrics measurements ensure maximum efficiency.<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of Biometrics originated back in 1981 to identify criminal\u2019s fingerprints to be analyzed and stored. Since then, this practice happens all over the world. However, now biometric authentication has just not become important, but a welcomed in all aspects of our lives. Biometric measurements also have evolved from only fingerprint and now different parts of our body such as finger vein, palm vein, iris scan, voice recognition, facial recognition, brain waves, heart signals, DNA identification, and behavior biometrics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Breaking the barriers of use in only for criminal identification, biometrics has now evolved to personal security level and reached to cloud computing as well. Biometrics help us change our lives reforming manual tasks into automation and providing that extra layer of security. It is not only affecting our lives only as an individual but also as a community, and even as a species in the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us have a quick overview how the biometric technology is affecting our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Security<\/b><\/p>\n

Undoubtedly the first things that biometric technology makes our lives easy is through enhancing security. Biometric authentication and identification are changing the way we do and see things. Smart mobile devices are now adding an extra layer of security through<\/span> fingerprint scanner<\/b><\/a>, voice, or facial recognition. Recently, Samsung has added an iris scanner in their latest \u00a0smartphone. The data center of Google uses multimodal biometric verification to keep track of the security. Biometric visitor management systems like<\/span> VisitorTrack\u2122<\/b><\/a> is helping to maintain visitors in any environment and keep a record of their activities on the premise. Also, passwords and pins are too weak in terms of security. Moreover, pins or passwords are hard to remember by most people.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent study performed on Canadians revealed that they tend to forget their pins or passwords and leave any authentication online unfinished. Security checks are boring and tiresome in all the facilities. To automate this process, Japan used facial recognition gates at one of their airport that automatically scans passersby as they go through the gate and match it with the stored images. Many airports now use iris scan as well. Even the upcoming Olympic going to be held in Japan deployed the same facial recognition technology to scan their staff, media representatives, and athletes, as reported by Japan Times. Just recently, on the Ukrainian Border, the country established a biometric border control system to keep track of migrations. These technologies save time, create less hassle, reduce staff costs and maintain maximum efficiency. Such one tool created to help border control forces is <\/span>SecuredPass\u2122<\/b><\/a> that allows biometric enrollment of travelers. It is a central system that connects the whole county covering all the aiports, docks passport & also visa offices. \u00a0No more the old fashioned ways of pins passwords or manual face matching when one\u2019s own body becomes the ultimate password.<\/span><\/p>\n