Biometrics Market expected to grow despite Economic Downturn

Increasing demands for biometric technology means that the biometrics market keeps on growing despite the economic slump

Access control for identity management can be soon forgotten to biometrics security advances. Biometrics enhance security measures beyond the scope of access control due to accurate identification via unique physiological features and behavioral patterns of the individual. Security analysts predicted the biometrics market to triple its 2008 value by 2012. Increasing demands to adequately protect against mounting levels of security violation and fraud, results in a growing biometrics market despite the economic downturn.

Present day biometric access control systems centralize around economical fingerprint technologies. Requiring minimal storage space with low power requirements, and further temperature resistant, fingerprint access control suits a spectrum of commercial facilities. Yet the fingerprint technology cannot register low quality fingerprints found in the elderly population, as well as manual construction workers.

Emerging biometric solutions, other than fingerprint technology, are gaining momentum in the security industry from 2D and 3D face recognition, hand geometry iris and palm vein scans, as well as retina scans. Future developments in the physiological biometrics technologies include skin and earlobe scans, brain fingerprints and DNA evaluation. Biometrics technologies that are being developed for identity management based on behavioral patterns range from voice and body odor recognition to signature scans, keyboard and mouse patterns, and walk patterns.
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