INTRODUCTION 

Biometrics, which involves identification of an individual by means of his or her physiological features, is witnessing increased acceptance in our society. With smartphones unlocking to improve other systems, biometrics today have become the new face of the world. This article looks at the emerging trend in Biometrics and analyzes the resulting effect on the security and flexibility of society.

1. Biometric Technology in Personal Devices

Biometric technology is widely used in portable devices especially hand held devices such as mobile phones, laptops and tablets. Biometric lock solutions like fingerprints and faces have become a norm for unlocking the devices and others. These biometric systems always offer extra measures of security and thus denies any unauthorized personnel an opportunity to access the systems. Besides security, biometrics also provides advantages in terms of efficiency since the use of fingerprints or facial recognition is considerably faster than entering a password or PIN code on the keypad of a phone.

2. Biometric Technology in Security Systems

Biometric technology is also changing security system in individual as well as organizational settings. For instance, biometrics such as face identification and eye scanning, find application in smart homes, offices, airports, and in many open spaces to name but a few. That means these systems are able to recognize people and grant access to locked zones without keys or security cards. In addition, biometric systems provide greater security to biometric users over and above that provided by conventional security technologies, thus ensuring minimum likelihood of system intrusion and identity theft.

3. Biometric Technology in Healthcare and Banking

On the security front the uses of biometric technology are seen in industries such as health care and in banking, where productivity is enhanced. In client based industry such as healthcare, automated fingerprint identification and voice identification are being used to authenticate patients and protect them from identity fraudsters to access their records. The banking industry is starting to embrace biometrics for the identification process of users at already installed ATMs and mobile banking apps to minimize fraud. As applied to these industries, biometrics enables better organization, stronger defense, and the safeguarding of identified personal data.

FAQs

1. It’s therefore to the point to know what types of biometric technologies are in use today?

The common forms of biometric technologies are fingerprint scanning, facial recognition, iris and voice recognition technologies, and palm vein scanning. These methods are applied for identification and authentication in numerous fields of human life including personal gadgets, security systems, and even financial systems.

2. How safe is a biometric system?

In general biometric technology can be deemed highly secure since it uses such parameters of an individual which cannot be easily imitated by a third party. But, as rightly pointed out, nobody’s perfect and there are issues regarding privacy of data and possible weak spots involved. Who knows, thus, that biometrics should not be used in combination with other security mechanisms for added security.

3. In what ways is biometric technology used by individuals in their daily experience?

Biometric technology is incorporated on the everyday use for instance in unlocking mobile phones, online checks, access to sensitive areas, and even identification at airports. Convenience is increased, and it is a better experience than using something like passwords or security codes.

Conclusion

Biometrics technology is becoming one of the major tools to facilitate modern interaction with the environment by increasing a safety level of performed actions and making them more comfortable and effective. People now carry biometrics on their personal devices, this is used in security, health care sector, in banking amongst other industries. In turn, as new technologies are developed, biometrics are going to become even more of a part of our lives, providing increased customisation and security. But then we have concern for our privacy and security, to avoid abuse or misuse of people biometric data through convenient access.