Bird Home Automation expanded its product portfolio to include door intercoms with an integrated fingerprint sensor.

The new name reflects a new collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) CyLab Biometric Research Center. The CMU partnership will focus on early-stage research in object, body, and behavior recognition.

Today, biometric identification has expanded beyond the fingerprint scanner on our phones to facial recognition technology in video security systems. But the proliferation of video monitoring in our everyday lives has led to increased concerns around privacy rights and biometric bias.

The Kampr Systems K9i takes the place of a standard wall mounted card reader and uses 3D facial recognition technology to determine if an individual has authorization to enter the portal. 

The X-Station 2 is a versatile intelligent terminal with credential options of mobile access, QR and barcodes, as well as RFID cards and PIN. 

The U.S. Senate has passed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (S. 1260), which significantly increases investment in research and development, education and training, supply chain security and the broader U.S. innovation ecosystem.

The alliance will integrate Honeywell’s security and building management systems with IDEMIA’s biometric-based access control systems to create frictionless, safer and more efficient buildings. 

The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) created a video based on the Virtual PLAI Experience, an event held in May 2020, which included eight companies showing interoperability and exchange of identity information relying on the PLAI specification.

To meet the evolving design needs of the diverse and growing market for biometric access control, Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints) expanded its fingerprint authentication touch sensor portfolio for physical and logical access devices and applications.