Biometric firms Suprema and Egistec have revealed plans to partner to bring combined solutions to smartphone producers.The companies plan to combine Suprema BioSign fingerprint algorithm and Egis's advanced sensor technologies.In a statement, Suprema said BioSign ability to work with small sensors was a key advantage.”In general, fingerprint authentication performance has strong co-relation with size of sensors. While smaller sensors often result in poorer accuracy, BioSign overcame such inherent limitation, providing even superior performance with smallest sensor in the market. Such breakthrough will provides direct benefit in cost reduction to manufacturers,” said Brian Song, CEO at Suprema.”The latest market trend of growing demand for mid-range smartphones has significantly increased the needs for reduction in costs without sacrifice to performance or features. BioSign's capability to work with smaller sensors will help with cost reduction efforts.””At Suprema, we are expecting more growth potential from mid-to-low range smartphone segments as BioSign is designed to support low-cost smaller sensors and takes less memory than existing solutions. BioSign is now on testing at a number of top-tier smartphone producers and we expect successful market entry in near future,” Song added.Earlier this year, Egis Technology announced that the company's fingerprint sensors were selected for Samsung Galaxy A5 and Galaxy C7 models.

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