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Regaining Air Travelers

The first in a four-part series on how biometrics can help air travel recovery from the effects of the pandemic By Mohammed Murad When will global commercial airline traffic return to its pre-pandemic days? According to the International Air Transport Association, the number of passengers flying in 2020 decreased by more than 60%1 compared to

2022-08-31T15:55:56-04:00January 6th, 2022|Blog|

Iris ID’s IrisTime™ iT100 Selected by Leading Time and Attendance Provider

Cranbury, N.J. USA – December 7, 2021 – Iris ID, the global leader in iris recognition technology for over 20 years, announced that Michigan-based Tracy Inc. selected the IrisTime iT100 as its biometric data collection solution for the complex and demanding time and attendance environments found in government, university and manufacturing sectors. The iT100, Iris

2022-08-31T15:55:56-04:00December 7th, 2021|Press Release|

Robotic Vessels Roam the Seas

By Mohammed Murad 1 December 2021Security Technology, December 2021 On any day, Ocean Infinity's fleet of marine robotic equipment including autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are searching the world's seas to acquire and analyze data on behalf of governments, energy companies, and scientific organizations. The company is a pioneer in the use of marine robotic vessels equipped

2022-08-31T15:55:56-04:00December 6th, 2021|News|

Biometrics Needed for Vaccine Equity

By Mohammed Murad While many first-world nations have now fully vaccinated more than 70% of their citizens against the COVID-19 virus, there are African nations where fewer than one person in 100 have received shots. According to a research team based at the U.K.'s University of Oxford, only about 2% of people in all developing

2022-08-31T15:55:56-04:00October 26th, 2021|Blog|

Iris Biometrics Set the Stage for Future Federal Access Control

Final of a three-part series By Mohammed Murad When the federal government first established a PIV card program to increase security for federal employees and contractors, they were wise to include fingerprint biometrics into the protocol to provide another layer of identity authentication. By having employees present a PIV credential to a reader and then

2022-08-31T15:55:57-04:00October 12th, 2021|Blog|

Time to Make PIV Cards Universal in Federal Facilities

Second of a three-part series By Mohammed Murad Getting into a federal building or gaining access to a logical device isn't as easy today as in the early 2000s. Now, more than five million federal employees and contractors carry high-security Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards at many departments and agencies.  The cards, featuring embedded biometrics,

2022-08-31T15:55:57-04:00October 5th, 2021|Blog|

9/11 Forever Changed Government Access Control

First of a three-part series By Mohammed Murad The 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. forever changed how U.S. government agencies look at day-to-day operations. Security became top of mind, with improvements to access control drawing significant attention. Necessary improvements to access control weren’t limited to airports, where the terrorists initiated their attacks. Officials

2022-08-31T15:55:57-04:00September 29th, 2021|Blog|

Iris ID Looks at Growing Federal Government Use of Iris Biometrics

Cranbury, N.J. – Sept. 22, 2021 – Learn how the federal government is using iris biometrics for the collection of personal identity and authentication data by joining Iris ID, the global leader in iris recognition technology for 20 years, at Connect: ID 2021, Oct. 5-6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Agencies

2022-08-31T15:55:57-04:00September 22nd, 2021|Press Release|

How to Incorporate Biometrics Into a Client’s Security Plan

Technology advances have made using humans’ unique physical differences a more viable means of access control. With a pandemic to consider, fınd out which methods make the most sense. September 13, 2021   by Mohammed Murad   Integrators are faced with ever-increasing choices when it comes to access control. The security industry has a half-century of

2022-08-31T15:55:57-04:00September 14th, 2021|News|

Demand for iris recognition-based access control skyrocketing

By Mohammed Murad The demand for access control technology is skyrocketing, according to a new market research report by the international market research firm, FMI. And biometric solutions top the list, with iris recognition-based systems expected to post the largest jump in demand. FMI estimates total worldwide access control market revenue of USD 15.3 billion

2022-08-31T15:55:58-04:00September 7th, 2021|Blog|