Fingerprint | Card Access Control And Time Attendance Solutions : FingerTec Worldwide
 
FingerTec News  03/03/2017
TA700W Comes with the New & Improved Live ID Scanner
Fingerprint products are improving by leaps and bounds over the years making it the market’s preferred choice for biometrics technology over the other authentication methods like retina scanning and voice recognition. Factors such as accuracy, reading speed, convenience, and affordability largely contribute to fingerprint system’s popularity. But essentially, every fingerprint terminal must have an effective fingerprint scanner to guarantee smooth operation apart from other useful features.
Optical fingerprint scanners are the most commonly used scanners and this type of scanner uses LED light to illuminate the finger. When a person touches the surface of the scanner, the sensor will detect and distinguish the light from the dark areas and creates a fingerprint image based on the scan. Capacitive fingerprint scanner on the other hand uses electrical current to create the image with the same process like optical scanner. The fingerprint ridges that are closer to the capacitor plates will record a higher capacitance whereas the valleys of the fingerprint will have a lower capacitance. The capacitive sensor can measure the tiniest differences in conductivity that are caused by the presence of ridges.
 
Various enhancements were done on the optical fingerprint sensor and it has evolved since the early years of fingerprint system introduction. For FingerTec, the silicon coating is no longer necessary to amplify the fingerprint image, the sensor deters better images and the LED only lights up when a fingerprint is placed on the sensor.

The latest FingerTec TA700W will be using yet another new and improved optical scanner named Live ID. The Live ID scanner has been designed to produce high verification rate and perform well even when presented with dry, wet and blur fingerprints. Poor quality of fingerprints is usually observed amongst the elderly, people who are exposed to abrasive chemicals and those who worked in wet environments. Live ID also minimizes interference during fingerprint verification, minimizing the false rejection rate to nearly zero. It scans faster than the regular optical scanner, reducing the speed by 1 second and now a user can be verified in a split second, without fail. Live ID has also been integrated with an infrared sensor that activates the scanner when a finger approaches it and last but crucially, this new scanner is able to adopt fingerprint templates enrolled using FingerTec Algorithm VX 10.

 
The TA700W is the latest time and attendance product from FingerTec. It’s the first all white terminal that can connect to TimeTec TA. Watch this space for the launch, soon.