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Physical Access Control

Biometric security devices have remarkably replaced the manual guarding system and mechanical locks to control physical access at various susceptible places. Especially, after threatening and devastating terrorist attacks, it is important to ensure that only authorized users are allowed to access places like airports, banks and government buildings. Moreover, physical access control in an organization is of great significance to avoid loss or theft of information and inventory. Keeping all this things in mind, constant research has given birth to biometrics with impressive application in this direction.

Access Control in Organizations
From legal documents to dedicated servers, a business house has many areas, which require high-profile security. Apart from foreign intrusion, even unfaithful employees can pose threat to these areas. By installing biometric access control, you can relax about the security issues in your business organization.

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Security in Banking Industry
Banks, which preserve wealth of millions of account holders, are under constant threat from robbers. Moreover, not every bank employee can be allowed to reach every corner of a bank building. In order to ensure physical access control, biometric devices are fast becoming the favourable security alternatives.

Growing Needs of Health Care Industry
Protection of patients and inventory is important in a hospital. Misuse of drugs and medicines by employees is a common problem experienced at these places. Moreover, it is important to secure the interests of patients in Intensive Care Units and Cardiovascular Care Units. Hence, biometric access control is an admirable option for healthcare industry.

Airport Security Using Biometrics
Avoiding aeroplane hijacking and terrorist attacks constantly demand for high-profile security provisions at airports. Biometric security devices are used to allow only authorized airport employees to access various places. Log management offered by these devices can help in tracking the presence of criminals and terrorists trying to intrude.

Biometric Security at Other Places
Government offices, intelligence agencies, law enforcement organizations and other similar places are installed with biometric access control to keep the security intact. Apart from this, you can install these devices at your homes and garages to protect your families, assets and cars.

Biometric security devices offer physical access control by capturing and storing physical and behavioural traits associated with employees at the places mentioned above. Fingerprint recognition, face recognition, iris and vascular pattern recognition are the techniques, which can’t be cheated or tampered and this is the significance of biometric technology. It is indeed a practical and fit-to-purpose security alternative in the modern world.

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written by venkat , December 20, 2010

i whant biometric based filetransfer using fingerprint
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