Biometric Authentication Use Cases
1. Healthcare: Hospitals use biometrics for the accurate identification of patients and to prevent mix-ups. Biometric information is used by health centers and doctor’s offices to ensure the safety of their patient data. Medical personnel therefore can keep and get patient history with biometric authentication.
2. Travel: An electronic passport has a microchip that contains the person’s biometric data, including a facial photograph. This name is linked to biometric information and other identifiers. The e-passport is issued electronically after the passport authority checks the applicant’s fingerprints or other biometrics and ascertains that the microchip data matches the provided details.
3. Law Enforcement: Police use many types of biometric characteristics such as fingerprints, facial features, iris scans, voice prints, and DNA in identifying persons. Law enforcement agencies can access confidential information more quickly using these systems than before. Trained experts traditionally compared fingerprints manually, now automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) can compare a fingerprint against millions in a database within minutes.
What is Biometric Authentication?
Biometric authentication is a way to prove who you are by using parts of your body like your fingerprints, face, or eyes. It’s very difficult for someone else to copy or steal your biometrics like fingerprints. Passwords can be hacked, guessed, or stolen more easily. This article focuses on authentication techniques with the help of biometric systems and their various types.