The CEO of Norwegian firm NEXT Biometrics has said that fingerprint sensors will increasingly become more prevalent in new market sectors.Tore Etholm-Idsoe told National Public Radio that Smart Cards, PCs, tablets, access control for homes and businesses, wider use in Smart Phones and more devices in the Internet of Things (IoT).The CEO said, “We target markets for our advanced fingerprint sensors in the mass market one-to-one context, for which you need to be able to process fingerprint identification and authentication in typically less than one second.” NEXT, based on Oslo, Norway is publicly traded on the Oslo Bors (OAX: NEXT).In the NPR interview, Etholm-Idsoe said, “Fingerprint sensors will now start appearing in a lot of different contexts. Think of it, every day we authenticate ourselves tens of times or more, even up to hundreds of times in different contexts, as we increasingly use fingerprint technology to enter smart phones or tablets or even our homes and more.”Promoting the appearance, NPR said, “Fingerprint recognition technology is replacing passwords in smartphones, key fobs and many other consumer products”.
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