Japan-based biometrics firm mofiria Corporation will release a new finger vein authentication device called the FVA-U4ST in October 2016The device can enroll and authenticate finger vein data via USB connection.mofiria expects that this new device will sell 20,000 devices in the first year due to increased domestic demand for secured solutions for supporting national identification number system, and overseas demand increasing of biometrics, especially in Asia and Middle East area. This device adopts, unlike mofiria's existing model FVA-U3SX, a flat finger placement method and this helps decreasing of troubles on installation and operation.By combining with supported SDKs also provided by mofiria, it can support Windows, Mac OS, Android and Ubuntu for client computer, and Windows and CentOS for server computer.Like mofiria's existing models, this device can support matching process both inside device and on server.In a statement, the firm said it has a power-saving design and the power consumption is about 1/3 compared to its competitors. This device is compatible with a Bluetooth connected device FVA-U4BT that supports wireless biometrics operations.Mofiria is a finger vein pattern recognition technology that Sony Corporation developed. The firm spun off from Sony as an independent company in 2010
Mofiria Corporation develops USB-connected finger vein authentication device
