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Biometrics Evaluation Shows Vendors Making Technology More User Friendly

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 28th, 2019

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Biometrics Evaluation Shows Vendors Making Technology More User Friendly

Artist's rendering for 2018 Biometric Technology Rally. DHS image.

A recently completed demonstration of biometrics technologies in high-throughput environments shows that the companies are making the systems easier to use and driving up user satisfaction, according to the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of the evaluation. Compared with the first Biometric Technology Rally in 2018, this year showed a “significant increase in the number of really strong candidates,” Arun Vemery, director of the Biometrics and Identity Center at the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, told HSR in…

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