De pequenino é que se adapta o menino: Scottish School 1st to Use Palm-Vein Biometrics: A Scottish school has turned to biometrics as part of a nationwide push to encourage children to eat healthier meals.
The cafeteria at Todholm Primary School in Paisley, Scotland, has gone cashless, and students are buying lunches by holding their hands over a palm-vein recognition unit produced by Glasgow-based Yarg Biometrics. It?s the first school to use the system. Inside is the same palm-vein scanner from Japan?s Fujitsu that can now be found on thousands of bank cash machines across Japan.
The system relies on an infrared image of the palm of a user?s hand. It reveals the pattern of veins present under the skin, and from this an algorithm can confirm identity of the user. It takes into account identifying features such as the number of veins, their position and the points at which they cross, and offers a higher level of security than competing technologies including voice print, facial recognition, fingerprint recognition and iris scan, according to Fujitsu.
