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NEC invests in U.S.-based iris biometric system company

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NEC Corp on Monday announced an investment in Tascent Inc, a U.S.-based biometric system company, with the aim of accelerating the global expansion of its safety business. The amount of the investment is not disclosed.

Recently, the demand for multimodal biometric identification to further bolster security is rapidly growing. Within this environment, the iris identification market is expected to experience significant growth. NEC has been developing biometric identification technologies for more than 40 years, and systems using NEC's Bio-Idiom biometrics have been introduced through more than 700 systems in 70 countries and regions around the world. Moreover, earlier this year, NEC's iris recognition was named the world's most accurate by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, which has also recently named NEC's face recognition and fingerprint recognition technologies as the most accurate.

Established in 2015, Tascent provides multimodal biometric identification systems, with particular emphasis on the iris modality. The company's technologies include optical control technology to remotely capture an accurate, high-quality iris image at high speed, and a user interface (UI) technology that smoothly guides users in support of capturing accurate biometric information. Tascent's technologies are embedded in security systems widely used at airports, government agencies and enterprises around the world.

This investment and partnership will enable the two companies to jointly enhance the capacity of iris recognition, using Tascent's optical control and UI technologies and NEC's advanced biometric engines and create a next generation iris authentication offering for the public safety market. 

"In NEC's ‘Mid-term Management Plan 2020,' the company positions its safety business as an engine for global growth and focuses on the development of this business," said Masakazu Yamashina, Executive Vice President, NEC Corporation. "Moving forward, NEC aims to expand its social solution business and further boost profitability by acquiring new customers, delivery resources, core technologies and business models through collaborations and M&A, while developing its own core technologies and solutions."

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I'd like to know how I can expire and replace biometric-based credentials without losing a body part.

That is the flaw with these systems.

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If it's an American company, it would be bio-imperial, not bio-metric. Americans don't use the metric system ;)=

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Seems like a sensible move.

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