Iris recognition device is a growing technology in our modern era. Its applications are highly diverse, from business use to national security issues. The technology is qualified as versatile and extremely accurate (1).
Application of the Iris recognition system can be implemented into access control, public safety and justice, national identity, time and attendance, transportation as well as immigration purposes (1). This growing technology is currently being use in the United Arab Emirate for the border control , replacing the customs’ traditional method, they call it: The UAE Iris Expellees Tracking and Border Control System (2). Similar use is being implemented in Canada and the United States, known as CanPass and Nexus program (3). Several European countries as well as Japan and the US have started introducing Iris recognition in areas of banking and money transaction, as a replacement for personal identification numbers to reduce incidences of fraud and identity theft (4).
Further development of the technology may one day allow the replacement of most of the digital print systems as well as signatures for credit card or medical card. Most identification system can be replaced by a biometric recognition system with the aim of increasing the level of accuracy and security.
(1) http://www.lgiris.com/ps/solutions/index.htm
(2)http://www.biometrics.org/bc2005/Presentations/Conference/2%20Tuesday%20September%2020/Tue_Ballroom%20B/Lt.%20Mohammad%20UAE2005.pdf
(3) www.getnexus.com/
(4) http://www.findbiometrics.com/Pages/iris_articles/iris_1.html
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