The first biometric ATM in Europe to give cash through ‘finger vein’ scan has been installed by Poland’s cooperative BPS bank. The new ATM makes it possible for bank customers to withdraw cash by the touch of a fingertip and its adoption, according to CNN, is believed to reflect the country’s “forward-thinking attitude to the role of information technology in society.”
The ATM uses the latest ‘finger vein’ technology with infrared light – developed by Hitachi – to detect a unique pattern of micro-veins. This is then matched with a pre-registered user-profile in order to verify his or her identity. According to Hitachi, the technology is more reliable than the use of fingerprints and has a million false acceptance rate which is only comparable to iris scanning (widely regarded as the most secured biometric authentication method). Perhaps, the most interesting feature about the ‘finger vein’ technology is that unlike in fingerprinting, there is no potentially replicable traces as finger veins are located below the skin surface.
Biometric ATM machines are already in use in some parts of Asia, Middle East and South America and have been found to be very effective in combating identity theft although there are already concerns about how such sensitive data are stored.
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July 10, 2010 at 9:44 am
Good info thanks…
EuroVPS
July 10, 2010 at 11:48 pm
although it’s an excellent way of preventing identity theft, it sure has some downsides also. for instance injury to the vessels, blood clots, cholesterol and other blood vessel deterioration could make your banking session tricky.
Grook
July 12, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Biometric solution will take big part in future in security field
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July 12, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Biometric ATM machines is a good and better alternative to card ATM machine…
Ashish
August 9, 2010 at 8:41 am
Biometric Fingerprint Reader is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar.
Laura
September 2, 2010 at 9:35 pm
I think we will be seeing a lot more of these in the future!
I think they are pretty cool!
Thanks,
Laura
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October 10, 2010 at 9:52 am
This seems like a good idea but I can imagine there will be a lot of teething problems.
Darin Cunningham
August 10, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Wow, i never thought that withdrawing from ATM could be amazing. Perhaps in the future, Banks would adapt Biometric ATM machines. Not only this increases the security against identity theft but also it gives the banking institution an edge over the others.
Mike Cambridge
March 23, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Have to say I’m all in favor of Biometric ATM machines. Nevermind security reasons, just how convenient.