US-based technology company SmartMetric has added real time finger detection into its in-the-card fingerprint scanner for the biometric credit and debit card.
The new technology aims to increase security for card transactions.
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It requires the card holder to touch the surface mounted square sensor on the card. It procures and transmits a detailed image of the fingerprint to the card’s internal processor.
Subsequently, the card’s smart card chip and/or RFID transmission is turned on if the fingerprint matches with the pre-stored fingerprint.
The overall process takes less than a second to complete.
If the fingerprint does not match, the card continues to remain inactive and the smart card chip will not work.
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By GlobalDataThe technology also includes additional sensing functions that can recognise ‘liveness’ of a finger. This in turn prevents the ‘dead finger’ fingerprint replication.
SmartMetric president and CEO Chaya Hendrick said: “This is an important feature that foils attempts to use a recreated fake finger in order to get around the strong biometric security embedded inside our cards.”
The SmartMetric biometric card is as thin as a standard credit card. It includes a fully functional fingerprint scanner with a rechargeable battery.
The biometric credit/debit cards are currently offered to banks in the US and Latin America.
Last month, SmartMetric partnered with Spanish card payment scheme ServiRed to manufacture biometric credit cards.
