Now Blood Flow will Secure your Laptop


Bangalore: Fujitsu announced a biometric authentication system based on palm vein pattern recognition technology to secure your laptops. This technology is named “PalmSecure” has been in use in many business application in Japan for past few years and now the company is planning to make its presence left in consumer electronics too.

Plam-scanning technology is already there in mice and physical keyboards, but now Fujitsu is stepping up in this authentication technology  to incorporate it in to laptops and other devices to make them more secure.  Laptop having PlamSecure is already available in Japan and now devices with this technology will be available in North America too.

This technology can also be used for  Physical access control / Time and Attendance, Government / Commercial identity management systems and in OEM terminal devices.

Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing and business development at Fujitsu says “Fujitsu looked at a range of products and determined that vascular authentication--reading vein patterns and specifically in the Palm is the best. PalmSecure takes a snapshot of blood moving through your vein. They call it Liveness Detection, which means you have a live body with biometric authentication which makes it very hard to fool the device.”

PalmSecure palm vein biometric authentication device is already available in India costing        15,750 per sensor, but Indian market has not yet seen any devices like laptops and tablets  which comes with plamSecure.