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When biometrics meet mobile phone technology

M. Rajeev

Remote Reading: Indigenously developed BioMoRF, a device that helps in monitoring activities at a remote location on a real-time basis.

HYDERABAD: Facing difficulties in monitoring the attendance of employees working in a remote location? Unable to ascertain how many students have opted for mid-day meals in social welfare hostels?

The Hyderabad-based Infronics Systems (formerly Suchinfotech) has created a novel solution for coping with such problems.

The device is called BioMoRF and it combines three technologies: biometrics or body measurements for identification; RFID or Radio Frequency Identification for storage and retrieval of data and the Global System for Mobile Communication or GSM for mobility.

According to Infronics chief M.S. Raju, BioMoRF can be installed in offices, social welfare hostels and even remote locations such as mines. One has to prepare a database of the employees, students or others and feed it to a centralised server. When the user puts his finger print, on the terminal, it generates an SMS message and sends it to the central database for authentication in real time.

BioMoRF can be used to control access to information or buildings, restrict the usage to specific category of users and maintain constant surveillance over the desired location. Unlike other access control applications such as smart cards or swipe cards the device prevents frauds. It can be used either as a standalone or can be fully networked and can be adapted for other biometric parameters. The pricing of the device is yet to be finalised, but is expected to be around Rs. 50,000. The makers have applied for a patent.

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