Advantage and Disadvantage of Biometric system

Advantages of biometric System

The advantages of biometrics are the person is the key so you need never remember your card or key again. Each body part is unique and Biometrics uses your unique identity to enable a purchase activate something or unlock something. Biometrics encompasses Voice, Vein, Eye, Fingerprint, Facial recognition and more.

• Unique: The various biometrics systems have been developed around unique characteristics of individuals. The probability of 2 people sharing the same biometric data is virtually nil.
• Cannot be shared: Because a biometric property is an intrinsic property of an individual, it is extremely difficult to duplicate or share (you cannot give a copy of your face or your hand to someone!).
• Cannot be copied: Biometric characteristics are nearly impossible to forge or spoof, especially with new technologies ensuring that the biometric being identified is from a live person.
• Cannot be lost: A biometric property of an individual can be lost only in case of serious accident.

Disadvantages of biometric system:

The disadvantages are numerous however: criminals have been known to remove fingers to open biometric locks, Biometrics requires a lot of data to be kept on a person, these systems are not always reliable as human beings change over time if you are ill; eyes puffy, voice hoarse or your fingers are rough from laboring for example it maybe more difficult for the machinery to identify you accurately. Every time you use Biometrics you are being tracked by a database bringing up a range of privacy issues. The final disadvantage is the expense and technical complexity of such systems.

The finger print of those people working in Chemical industries are often affected. Therefore these companies should not use the finger print mode of authentication.

It is found that with age, the voice of a person differs. Also when the person has flu or throat infection the voice changes or if there there are too much noise in the environment this method maynot authenticate correctly. Therefore this method of verification is not workable all the time

For people affected with diabetes, the eyes get affected resulting in differences.

Biometrics is an expensive security solution.

Advantages of Biometrics :

Biometric Applications

Biometirc Finger application

PC / Laptop Security

Fingerprint scanner and smart card scanner systems which prevent unauthorised access to your laptop or hand held PC are becoming key increase in protection of data and information . Together with our great range of fingerprint software we can now eliminate the need for multiple passwords whilst ensuring the highest security is maintained.

Our range of USB fingerprint scanners are ideal for protection of your home / work or laptop computers...   Take a look at our cheapest and best-selling solution : the Secugen Hamster Plus along with SecuDesktop software.  These 2 products together allow you to replace your windows login with a fingerprint, encrypt files & folders and protect your screen-saver - all using your fingerprint for authorisation.

Network Login Solution

For business networks which require that extra level of security, biometric login solutions eliminate the possibility of passwords being lost / intercepted or guessed by malicious users.  Using a biometric login solution for your network, access is restricted from the server machine ensuring any accounts you have created are being authenticated by their intended users.

Password management duties are also eliminated which will save your IT staff valuable time and resources.  Unlike passwords, cards or tokens, fingerprints cannot be lost, forgotten, misplaced or stolen.

Our network login solutions can integrate seamlessly with your network to increase security, fingerprint readers can be embedded in normal computer peripherals - eg/ Secugen Optimouse Plus

For Novell networks - see our Secugen NMAS solution.

Telephones

An Olivetti rotary dial telephone, c.1940s

The telephone (from the Greek: τῆλε, tēle, "far" and φωνή, phōnē, "voice"), often colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other. It is one of the most common appliances in the developed world, and has long been considered indispensable to businesses, households and governments. The word "telephone" has been adapted to many languages and is widely recognized around the world.

All telephones have a microphone to speak into, an earphone which reproduces the voice of the other person, a ringer which makes a sound to alert the owner when a call is coming in, and a keypad (or in older phones a telephone dial or no manual device) to enter the telephone number of the telephone being called. The microphone and earphone are usually built into a handset which is held up to the face to talk. The keypad may be part of the handset or of a base unit to which the handset would be connected. A landline telephone is connected by a pair of wires to the telephone network, while a mobile phone or cell phone is portable and communicates with the telephone network by radio. A cordless telephone has a portable handset which communicates by radio with a base station connected by wire to the telephone network, and can only be used within a limited range of the base station

PDA(personal digital assistant)

A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant,^[1][2] is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet. A PDA has an electronic visual display, enabling it to include a web browser, but some newer models also have audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones or portable media players. Many PDAs can access the Internet, intranets or extranets via Wi-Fi or Wireless Wide Area Networks. Many PDAs employ touchscreen technology.
The first PDA was released in 1986 by Psion, the Organizer II. Followed by Psion's Series 3, in 1991, which began to resemble the more familiar PDA style. It also had a full keyboard. ^[3][4]
The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton. In 1996, Nokia introduced the first mobile phone with full PDA functionality, the 9000 Communicator, which grew to become the world's best-selling PDA. The Communicator spawned a new category of mobile phones: the "PDA phone", now called "smartphone". Another early entrant in this market was Palm, with a line of PDA products which began with the March 1996 Pilot 1000.
Today, almost all PDAs are smartphones. Over 150 million smartphones are sold each year, while "stand-alone" PDAs without phone functionality sell only about 3 million units per year.

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