Biometrics tools - real biometrics of the kind that one can use reliably in a high-security environment - are relatively rare. Add the need for rapid and reliable identification and one has a requirement for a very rare bird indeed. EyeLock enters the picture here with its approach and we would present them with "The Better Mousetrap Award" - if such a prize existed. EyeLock was founded five years ago in response to several factors. First, iris-matching systems have been around for a while, but have not reached the mainstream because owing to iris matching they are not scalable to millions of customers. Existing systems were too difficult to use and too expensive. Additionally, they did not work well and so were used in small deployments.
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