Biometrics

Description: Automatically recognizing a person using distinguishing traits (a narrow definition). Biometrics is the measurement of physical characteristics such as fingerprints or retinal features using scanning technologies.

Links:

The Biometric Consortium: serves as the US Government's focal point for research, development, test, evaluation, and application of biometric-based personal identification/verification technology: www.biometrics.org

Precise Biometrics is a research-oriented company: www.precisebiometrics.com

International Biometric Group - "the biometric industry's leading integration and consulting firm": www.biometricgroup.com