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Yet a machine named PulseWallet
wants to eradicate the card altogether. All it does is scan the veins
in your hand and then charge your credit card. Effectively PulseWallet
is a palm scanner; a credit card terminal and register, with a built-in
biometric palm reader.
Inside it contains a Fujitsu camera. Along with PalmSecure technology
it scans your palm. It creates an infrared image and then converts it
into a biometric template, which is then stored in the cloud. Once the
photograph has been paired with your credit card, you can hold your hand
over any PulseWallet station and pay with your chosen credit card. The
device looks for a perfect match in its database and once it locates the
data, your identity is verified.
CTO for PulseWallet, Matt Saricicek, says that most people’s veins
stay pretty much the same once they pass the age of eight, so it is
unlikely that you will need to keep re-scanning your hand to update the
database.
The technology is said to be accurate about 99.9% of the time and to
try and make it 100%, PulseWallet requires that you also enter your
telephone number as a secondary check.
Your Hand Is Your Account
Saricicek explains that the company purposefully went for a less invasive type of authentication. “I don’t want any laser being beamed into my eye, but it doesn’t bother me to put out my hand,” he said. “Your hand is your account.”If you own a business, it is possible to connect the terminal to a point of sale cash register or to the PulseWallet’s bundled register.
Apparently transactions take seconds, which is always a postive thing
in our busy daily lives. Whether PulseWallet will take off and become
popular with businesses, will depend a lot on its register software and
the cloud infrastructure to store users information.
The difficulty, as always with new payment systems, is security. “The
hardest part was the security. It’s our top priority,” says Saricicek.
“Nobody has a database of veins.”
“Biometric is the future,” Saricicek insists. “Now we can unlock our
phone with our fingerprint. We’re becoming lazier, and we demand
convenience.” Once PulseWallet has been set-up there is no denying that
it is super quick but that is not the only hurdle to mobile payments. In
order for it to succeed, the PulseWallet technology will have to build a
reputation as a very secure authentication platform before any
retailers will even consider using it, and that is easier said than
done.
But Saricicek is not fazed by the challenge: “People underestimate
the power of small businesses — it’s a huge market,” he says. “I’d
rather be in 1000 small businesses than in one big franchise, because
that’s where Square hit it.”
So is the time right for biometrics? What do you think?
Source: Techbeat.com
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