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News Release from: Fingerprint Cards | Subject: Fingerprint Cards' swipe sensor technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 January 2008
Secure card checks user fingerprints
Fingerprints' processor ASIC has reduced embedded power consumption to a level necessary to match the card's battery capacity and allow normal use of the card for approximately two years.
Fingerprint Cards' swipe sensor technology has been chosen for the development of a new biometric secure payment card The customer is CardLab ApS, which has been running a project for some time and will now develop and produce prototype cards to evaluate functionality
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The biometric card will have the same format in size and thickness as the standardised plastic cards in circulation today and can be read by the magnetic stripe card readers used in existing payment systems.
A complete biometric system will be embedded in the card, powered by wafer-thin batteries inside in the card.
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The biometric information of the cardholder never leaves the card.
Technology developed by CardLab has been central to the project and this programs and controls the information on the card's magnetic stripe.
Fingerprints' extremely power efficient system for fingerprint verification is the other essential enabler to make this secure card solution successful.
Fingerprints' processor ASIC has reduced embedded power consumption to a level necessary to match the card's battery capacity and allow normal use of the card for approximately two years.
Along with its new processor ASIC Fingerprints will deliver its swipe sensor, its algorithm and technical support.
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