Military biometrics market to grow more than 7% CAGR through 2020 Technavio has released a new study entitled ‘Global Military Biometrics Market 2016-2020‘, which forecasts that the global military biometrics market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than a 7% during the forecast period. The market research...full story Categories: Biometric News | Military Applications Share: Facebook | Twitter

Imprivata report reveals that biometric ID improves patient care, reduces hospital costs Imprivata released a new study entitled ‘2016 National Patient Misidentification Report‘, which reveals that patient misidentification has become rampant and carries significant consequences that negatively impact patient care and the hospital’s financial performance. The report is based on a...full story Categories: Biometric News | Healthcare Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

Canada Border Services Agency’s use of facial recognition flags man with two identities A Pakistan-born employee at an Alberta, Canada restaurant has been ordered to leave Canada after the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) facial recognition software analyzed his driver’s license photo and determined he is an entirely different person, according to...full story Categories: Biometric News | Border Security | Facial Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

eyeCam raises $1.5M for development of wearable platform eyeCam, Inc. has received $1.5 million in reservations on equity crowdfunding site Crowdfunder to develop its wearable 3D interfacing, adaptive display, and biometric ID system. The company‘s patented 3D interfacing and adaptive display system is designed to help change...full story Categories: Biometric News | Wearables Share: Facebook | Twitter

Precise Biometrics completes private placement of shares Precise Biometrics‘ board of directors has resolved to issue 14,925,373 new shares in Precise Biometrics through a private placement directed to a group of qualified Swedish and international investors. The purpose of the private placement is to finance Precise...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

QNB adds iris recognition to its ATMs In an effort to increase customers’ financial security and convenience, Qatar National Bank (QNB) has begun using Iris ID’s iris recognition solution, Iris Access, to authenticate customers using the bank’s ATMs. Iris Access is used by governments and corporations...full story Categories: Biometric News | Iris / Eye Share: Facebook | Twitter

Gait biometrics expert named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors Gait biometrics expert Sudeep Sarkar has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI Fellows Program has 757 Fellows worldwide representing more than 229 universities and governmental and non-profit research institutions. Collectively, the Fellows...full story Categories: Biometric News | Biometric R&D Share: Facebook | Twitter

Vkansee raises $10M to fund fingerprint sensor innovation Vkansee has raised $10 million in additional funding from existing angel investors and other institutional investors, including Infotech Ventures, Yunnan Huizhong Fund, Shenzhen Qianhai Greatwall Fund and Superpix Micro Technology. This latest round of funding brings its total invested...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Precise Biometrics to acquire NexID Biometrics for $3.49M Precise Biometrics has entered into an agreement to acquire spoof mitigation and liveness detection solutions provider NexID Biometrics for 32 million SEK (US$3.49 million) in cash. As a result of the acquisition, Precise Biometrics will be able to rapidly...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

German state police department to use Crossmatch palm scanners Crossmatch announced that its German partner and technology integrator Hecosys will provide Crossmatch livescan devices for the Polizei Niedersachsen, which is the State Police Department of Lower Saxony in Germany. All livescan booking stations will be equipped with the...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition | Law Enforcement Share: Facebook | Twitter

10th annual Border Security Conference 10th annual Border Security Conference Rome, Italy This conference program will explore how political issues affecting the border security community, such as increasing immigration in the Mediterranean as well as cross-border terrorism, can be combated and managed using innovative...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

World Border Security Congress World Border Security Congress March 21-23, 2017 Casablanca, Morocco The World Border Security Congress is a high level 3 day event that will discuss and debate current and future policies, implementation issues and challenges as well as new and...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

FinDEVr New York 2017 FinDEVr New York 2017 March 21 & 22, 2017 Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St., New York, NY FinDEVr is the only conference series focused exclusively on the TECHNOLOGY of fintech and the developers, CTOs and other creators of...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

IoT Asia 2017 IoT Asia 2017 29-30 March 2017 Singapore EXPO, Singapore #iotasia As the first dedicated platform in Asia to address the enormous potential of the IoT revolution, the first edition of IoT Asia in 2014 was ahead of its competition....full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

connect:ID 2017 connect:ID 2017:Physical & digital identity in the 21st century May 1-3, 2017 WEWCC, Washington, DC, USA Welcome to the 4th edition of connect:ID – with it’s leading global conference and exhibition that focuses on all aspects of identity technologies...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter