How does iris recognition technology compare to electronic finger print technology?
The system has both advantages and disadvantages to electronic fingerprint systems, such as Live Scan. Here are some of the advantages: the iris biometric is about 12 times more unique – from a science and statistical perspective – than fingerprint biometrics. There is no need to touch anything (as with fingerprinting) to capture the biometric data. A participant simply looks into the digital camera like they were looking through binoculars and it takes a digital photo of their iris. As a result, there is almost no possibility of transmitting germs, bacteria, etc. as can happen on the surface of the fingerprint reader. The file generated to store the iris is significantly smaller – and therefore easier to store and retrieve – than a fingerprint image. One of the other major advantages is that iris recognition biometric technology is always a “one-to-many” search – unlike most live scan systems that are a “one-to-one” search with a “one-to-many” candidates search option. Every time a pe
