A Comparative Survey of Biometric Systems

📄 Project Abstract

Biometric technology is a reasonably new method of authentication, providing highly secure identification and personal verification solutions by the use of biological characteristics such as fingerprints and hands. The report explores key areas associated with biometrics and provides a full investigation into the established biometric techniques, ideally suited to the commercial environment, and the applications biometrics are currently deployed. The report finds biometrics are becoming more and more convenient and noticeably more accurate than traditional methods such as passwords and PINs. Biometrics link the event to a particular individual, requires nothing to remember or carry, provides positive authentication by verifying individuals are who they claim to be, and is becoming an inexpensive solution. Biometrics has successfully been implemented in government applications such as identification in border control systems and airports and has only recently being targeted for business...