Virtual Impressions
Fingerprinting technology gets faster and cleaner with Safran’s help.
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Safran (NYSE Euronext: SAF), which deploys biometric recognition systems in airports worldwide using fingerprint, facial or iris recognition, says its new Finger on the Fly technology reduces lines at high-traffic security checkpoints and eliminates the “yuck factor” of touching sensors contaminated by many hands.
When four fingers are waved above the advanced imaging technology, explains Bernard Didier, executive and senior vice president of technology and strategy at Safran Morpho, the Paris-based company’s security business, it “takes a series of images in real time and reconstructs, in a fraction of a second, a faithful image of the ridge structure of the skin.” Pointing out that a wave of the hand is much faster (and cleaner) than positioning fingers on a sensor, Didier says the no-touch system is also well suited for countries where customs and religion prohibit men and women from touching the same object.
Didier predicts “fewer inaccurate rejections, better security and overall shorter lines” once Finger on the Fly becomes available in late 2012 or in 2013.
