The market for smart cards, secure ICs, inlays, (biometric) data capture, card personalization, printing and issuance in government, healthcare, and citizen ID will reach a cumulative value of $72 billion by 2016. The largest proportion of revenues will be from the deployment of national ID cards and e-passports. 

The employment of higher-value applications, in particular […]

DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and access management solutions, announced the company’s U.are.U® 5100 series of fingerprint readers and modules has achieved Personal Identity Verification (PIV) certification. The U.are.U 5100 series makes high-efficiency, standards-compliant biometrics practical for handheld ID terminals and is designed to support a growing number of Civil ID applications such […]

Suprema, Inc., a global leader in biometrics and ID solutions, announced today that the company’s ‘RealScan-G10’ and ‘RealScan-10’  fingerprint live scanners tested in full compliance and received final certification from the Government of India’s STQC (Standardization Testing & Quality Certification) for the country’s UID (Unique ID, India’s next generation national ID) project. The STQC certification is an essential requirement for […]