Mobile fingerprint payment appears in Korea
With much biometric hype recently centred around the fingerprint
sensor implemented on Apple's iPhone 5S, Korean mobile payments company,
Danal, appears to have flown under the radar with biometric company Crucialtec, to offer fingerprint authentication for mobile payments.
Danal is reported to have rolled out the technology onto Korean phone developer Pantech’s VEGA LTE-A smartphone.
A downloadable app called BarTong will allow the phone to be used as a
debit card. The fingerprint scan replaces the need for a four-digit pin
number.
Crucialtec has developed a mobile fingerprint solution called BTP
(Biometric TrackPad), which uses pattern rather than minutiae
recognition. The company is targeting numerous applications, such as a
quick app launching; website log in; mobile banking and payment; device
unlock; and file and folder locking. -BIOMETRIC UPDATE
