Application of Biometrics Science beyond Home Security

Technology is always improving, and new software is always being developed. One of these new technologies that have been developed is biometrics. Biometrics is the process by which a person's unique physical and other traits are detected and recorded by an electronic device or system as means of confirming identity (Dictionary.com, 2013). In recent years, the FBI has employed new biometrics technology.

Biometric recognition plays an important role in the field of security for any system. For embedded system it plays a significant role. As we know ATMs and smart phones are the most used smart devices that we interact daily, is needs to be secured. For this reason it must have a secure system that can provide security to save our personal things. For securing them there are lots of ways that are introduced in the past years. Biometric recognition is one of them. In the field of biometric recognition face, fingerprint, voice and retina are used to recognize an individual. Iris recognition is one of them. (Jain, A.K, 2004) Every human has a different body characteristic. One will never be same like another. Eye is one of them.

Biometrics recognition is a process that uniquely identifies people on the bases of natural characteristics either physical or behavioral. Human identification by Gait biometric is a method to identify people by their walking manner or style of moving on foot. Gait recognition is based on the behavioral characteristics of human that can uniquely differentiate one human from another. Gait has offered ability for recognition of human at distance or at less resolution. People can be monitored by gait recognition technology of biometrics without the active direct cooperation of human. Threats detection in high secure environments such as military installations, airports, parliament houses and even banks need to be very quick and different user

Biometric is a system that detect a person’s identification using a living person’s behavioral characteristics of that person such as fingerprints, hand gestures, voices, image scan like eyes, DNA and other facial images. For example, FBI is implemented a new identification technology called Next Generation Identification system. This new upgrade system will provide faster and more accurate way to check someone’s background like criminal history information for the FBI agencies, law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies. The Next Generation Identification checks the fingerprint that matches with the database records.

Biometrics are automated methods of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavioural characteristic. Using a unique, physical attribute of your body, such as your fingerprint, it should be to effortlessly identify and verify the genuine person in the market today. There are techniques that makes use of either a single biometric or multi modal biometric .There are many advantages in using the single biometric system such as accurate identification, ease of use ,highly secured. However most of the techniques used in single biometric system are easily hacked and traced in the recent years. Also these single biometric have equal disadvantages such as noisy data. There are many advantages of multibiometric system over single biometric system , because more than one biometric feature is taken and fused together to enhance the security. Many systems were proposed by taking

Abstract: Now a days Security of computer science and information technology is an important issue.Authentication and identification are related to the security.the traditional methods for confirming persons identity involve use of ATM,Pins,Password which can be lost or stolen.So it is needed to have a system which provide security and overcome the limitations of traditional methods.A biometric is the automated method of identifying the persons identity.Also biometric of the individual can not be hacked easily like password and

Another advantage of Biometric Verification system is its speed for verifying and checking the identification features of a person, which is quite fast. Thus, a user can be rejected or accepted by the system to database in several seconds. Moreover, it is known that for any company or organization, value of time is an essential factor. Time management system of a company can get more benefits from using biometric verification system. Saving time also can cause increasing revenue, productivity, and reducing cost. In other words, to avoid fraud and waste of time is main point for getting a good achievement in business. 4In addition, saving money is another advantage of biometric verification system, hence after having this system, there is no need for high-priced password authority. For example, if a company uses systems of high-quality, it means that product cost is reduced or minimized. 4Return on investment is so high because of avoiding fraud, decreasing cost, and other reasons. Thus, it is beneficial for a company to use biometric verification system, especially, it is an advance for finance management system of company in terms of getting more

1. Introduction Biometric technology provides several advantages over conventional security methods like pin, password, key, card etc. The Biometric system grants authentication by different physiological and behavioral traits of a person. Biometric systems are basically of two types based on the use of a biometric trait for identification and verification. The types of biometric system are • Unimodal biometric system • Multimodal biometric system

Identification systems has received and increasing attention from security point of view. These systems rely on three main elements 1) Attribute identification 2) Biographical identification and 3) Biometric

Biometrics has the promise to become an irreplaceable part of most identification systems, however it is not yet 100% accurate. Passwords and cards (customary in government and banking conglomerates) are no longer sufficient as a means of individual recognition; they can be shared among employees, lost, or forgotten, on the other hand biometric distinguishers cannot be shared, copied, or misplaced. With our technology today, biometrics can be used to reduce fraud, lead to user friendly human and machine interface, and could consequently make our society safer.

As the world evolved into a more electronic society, the possibility of using microprocessors to automate identity verification began to occupy the minds of individuals in both the military and commercial sectors. This led to the development of the hand geometry reader. It was a large and clunky device, but it worked. Refinements later yielded a much smaller and considerably enhanced hand geometry reader that became one of the cornerstones of early biometric industry. At the same time fingerprinting verification was being steadily improved to the point where it became a reliable method for verification. It wasn't until recently that there has been interest in iris scanning and facial recognition techniques, which offer the potential of a non-contact technology. The last decade has seen the biometric industry expand from a handful of specialist manufacturers, to a global industry poised for tremendous growth as large scale applications start to unfold.

Biometric authentication has been receiving extensive attention over the past decade with increasing demands in automated personal identification. Biometrics is to identify individuals using physiological or behavioral characteristics, such as finger-print, face, iris, retina, palm-print, etc. Among all the biometric techniques, fingerprint recognition is the most popular method and is successfully used in many applications.

In today’s world transformation of data very securely and information security are the most important categories for the organizations to follow or else the information can easily be taken away by the enemies. In olden days the organizations used to follow the encryption and decryption for the transformation of data securely which is known as cryptography. In cryptography the security of data depends on how strong the encryption and decryption are said to be used. But it is not very easy for the sender and receiver to recall all the passwords. So avoid those difficulties crypto-biometric is used which is the combination of biometric and cryptography. The biometric is a technology that identifies humans with their body uniqueness like fingerprints, face prints and voice patterns for the validation purposes. In recent year’s most of the analysts, trying to eradicate the password identification and using the biometric. The combination of cryptography and biometric can eliminate the recall of passwords because the information can be used only by the identified person. But there are some of the problems that are faced in the biometric. The biometric system which contains the information should not reveal any biometric features. It should also have the flexibility of converting the varied data in to the fixed. So, the data cannot be revealed to the unauthorized person when it was transmitted. Therefore, the result of Fingerprint based crypto-biometric system for network

With the increasing frauds in today’s world security is a big issue. So to increase the security we need to automate various identification systems. For that biometrics emerged as a new technology. Biometrics emerged as an automated identification system based on person’s biological traits. Two types of traits are used- physiological and behavioral [1]. Physiological characteristics relate to the shape of body and includes-

A biometric is defined as a unique, measurable, biological characteristic or trait which is used to identify individuals. Most widely used biometric characteristics to identify individuals include Face, Fingerprint, Hand geometry, Retina, Iris, Voice etc.