Biometrics and Smart Cards

Smart cards and biometrics are strongly synergistic technologies whose acceptance in the U.S. market is being driven by the desire in many applications for token-based as opposed to centralized biometric functionality. Increased opportunities are present for large-scale biometrics and smart card usage in public sector ID applications. However, various competing and proprietary technologies in both the biometric and smart card markets pose problems for institutions interested in large-scale deployment, as there is risk of technology obsolescence or over-reliance on a single vendor. This report identifies challenges that deployers and vendors face in adopting and developing this technology. Exclusive analysis in this report leverages years of hands-on experience testing and deploying biometrics and smart card technologies, years of interaction with leading vendors, and extensive evaluation of the technology for large-scale applications.

IBG has worked with all major smart card platforms and has a full working knowledge of the key standards and infrastructure issues which frame the use of biometrics in smart card applications. Learn more about IBG's expertise with smart cards.

Report Length: 35 pages
Price: $1,995 
Published: 2006

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Areas addressed include the following:

• Landscape of marketplace
• Core technologies used with smart cards: fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition, and hand geometry
• Key vendors, products, and deployments
• Form factors
• Target applications: access control, ID systems, MRTDs
• Environmental and operational challenges
• Performance and throughput
• Advantages and disadvantages of smart card utilization
• Contact and contactless technologies: emerging trends
• System architecture: storage and matching
• System security: cryptographic functionality
• Costs to deploy

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