Advantages Of Personal Identification

INTRODUCTION

Personal identification is to associate a particular individual with an identity. It plays a critical role in our society, in which questions related to identity of an individual such as “Is this the person who he or she claims to be?”, “Has this applicant been here before?”, “Should this individual be given access to our system?” “Does this employee have authorization to perform this transaction?” etc are asked millions of times every day by hundreds of thousands of organizations in financial services, health care, electronic commerce, telecommunication, government, etc. With the rapid evolution of information technology, people are becoming even more and more electronically connected. As a result, the ability to achieve highly

The purpose of such schemes is to ensure that the rendered services are accessed by a legitimate user, and not anyone else. Examples of these systems include secure access to buildings, computer systems, laptops, cellular phones and ATMs. In the absence of robust authentication schemes, these systems are vulnerable to the wiles of an impostor. Traditionally, passwords (knowledge-based security) and ID cards (token-based security) have been used to restrict access to systems. The major advantages of this traditional personal identification are that

(i) They are very simple

(ii) They can be easily integrated into different systems with a low cost.

However these approaches are not based on any inherent attributes of an individual to make a personal identification thus having number of disadvantages like tokens may be lost,

Financial fatalities due to identity robbery can be unadorned, and the integrity of security arrangements conceded and compromised. Hence, automatic authentication structures for control have found bid in criminal identification, autonomous trade and automated finance among others. Out of the many authentication systems that have been projected and executed, finger vein biometrics is emerging as the fool proof process of automated personal documentation and identification. Finger veins has a unique physiological biometric which classifying persons based on the physical features and structures of the vein patterns in the pulp of finger. It is a reasonably modern technical advance in arena of biometrics which is being used in different turfs such as medical and health , financial, law enforcement services and other claims where extraordinary levels of security and privacy is of utmost importance. This technology is notable because it requires only slight, fairly cheap one chip design, and has a very quick identification process which is contact-less and of high level of precision as equated with other identification biometrics like fingerprint, iris, and facial feature identification methods. This higher precision rate of finger vein is distinct with the fact that finger vein patterns are essentially impossible to counterfeit thus it has become one of the profligate