Mobile iris recognition
Iris recognition is thought to be the highest-accuracy, single-factor biometric identification in the world, and could have many uses.
In November, for example, an iris recognition system was installed in Bad Reichenhall’s city hospital to protect access to the infants’ ward.
The developers Byometric Systems Inc, of Mitterfelden, Germany, in co-operation with the University of Applied Science, Salzburg, Austria, report that over 240 degrees of the human iris is examined, to create a 512-byte data template, used to identify individuals and/or authenticate user privileges.
In future, another application could be to identify unconscious patients, who cannot give information about chronic disease. Alexander Lau, CEO of Byometric Systems said that the image of the Iris would be transferred to a computer, to send a unique IrisCode to a central database, where the patient would be identified. Data relayed to the attending doctor could then be used in treatment decisions.
01.07.2003
