Nature has endowed humans with unique traits that modern technology is increasingly using as identity identifiers. Biometric identification is currently one of the fastest-growing automatic identification technologies in access control applications.
Biometric identification technology constitutes a broad category of systems ensuring precise confirmation of an individual’s identity through the use of physiological traits and behavioral patterns. Physiological characteristics are relatively stable physical features such as: fingerprints, retina scans, hand geometry, or facial features. Behavioral characteristics, on the other hand, strongly depend on the individual’s personality.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2002/4.