Future Applications

Future Applications

There are many views concerning potential biometric applications, some popular examples being;
Employee Recognition
There are many employee recognition systems available but Biometrics provides a cheaper alternative to most, very few people lose their fingers or eyes when compared with those who lose smartcards or forget passwords.
Time and Attendance Systems
Time and attendance has always been a problem in some industries. Biometrics can effectively eliminate problems with buddy clocking by ensuring that the employee in question is present.
Physical access control biometrics includes everything that requires identity authentication by scanning a person's unique physical characteristics. It is used where high security is a necessity due to its superiority compared with conventional access control methods. Hospitals, police, the military as well as the financial industry all use physical access biometrics for the purpose of greater security and efficiency.
The most common physical access control biometrics applications are in access control devices for doors and computers with highly confidential and important information or high level network access.
IT/Network Security
As more and more valuable information is made accessible to employees via LAN and WAN, the risks associated with unauthorized access to sensitive data grow larger. Protecting your network with passwords is problematic, as passwords are easily compromised, lost, or inappropriately shared. Whether driven by security, convenience, or cost-reduction, biometrics is proving to be an effective solution for IT/Network Security.