Application Development

It is curious that in the formative years of what we shall call the biometrics industry there was much emphasis on the front-end capture device, or sometimes integrated devices, but relatively little on software. Perhaps this was natural as many were preoccupied in proving that the concept actually could work and that their particular device was a leading contender. Nowadays there exist a raft of biometric products targeted at the workstation/network access control function which naturally feature some sort of software integration into the operating system. However, high quality innovative software applications which feature biometric technology (or the potential to integrate to it) are still relatively thin on the ground. This may appear surprising to some people when you consider the plethora of professional software houses across the globe and the fact that biometrics are often perceived (and publicised) as representing an exciting, leading-edge technology within the broader computer science arena.