Smartphones To Act As Biometric Identification Package

California based AOptix has been awarded a 3 million dollars research contract from the US Department of Defence to develop its “Smart Mobile Security” biometrics identification package. The company has been given two years to test out hardware peripheral and software tools that would turn a regular smartphone into a device that is capable of scanning facial, eye and thumb features for biometric data collection and transmit them. According to AOptix’s Vice President Chuck Yort, they have already given a demonstration of their prototype and have obtained inputs from the Department of Defence to improve the device.

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AOptix has remained stingy on the details but has informed that the peripheral would wrap around the phone and would weigh less than a pound. The company suggests that it is capable of scanning faces from up to two meters away and scan irises from a maximum distance of one meter but of course finger prints would require the person to place their  fingerprints on the device. For data security CACI International has been also roped in the contract.

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