May 22, 2006
Iris Scanning Cell Phones a Reality
Eye-scanners may soon be used to verify cell phone users according to Xvista, a UK-based company which has developed the first portable iris scanner. [via Mobiledia]
In their own words:
xVista’s iris scanner discreetly and securely scans and maps the iris for individual characteristics. The iris is then registered on to a central database creating a template that can be checked against all further scans to verify the user’s identity.
The iris data is captured and processed by a unique algorithm designed specifically to operate on low power computing devices such as a camera equipped mobile phone. A standard, 256 Mb mobile phone memory card will be able to hold over 250,000 separate iris templates and from a database of 1,000,000 irises, it will take less than one second for it to verify an individual iris.
... Each human iris is unique. The chance of two irises matching is approximately 1 in 7 billion, offering unbeatable protection against fraud.
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