Norway's NEXT Biometrics has won contract to supply large fingerprint sensors to First Biometrics for its development of a smartcard.The Smart Card will initially be used as North America's first payment and identity card. The card is embedded with a smart chip and fingerprint sensor for maximum security and durability in financial transactions.The card is North America's first payment and identity card,said the companies. Recently NEXT announced that with its partner Innolux it can meet mass market production demand for fingerprint sensors, which are perfect for uses including Smart Card, government ID and access control applications.NEXT CEO Ritu Favre said, “We are pleased that after exhaustive review, First Biometrics has chosen the NEXT fingerprint sensor for its breakthrough Smart Card initially to be used in casinos and ultimately to reach a broader range of markets. NEXT's ISO-compliant large cost-efficient sensor is ideally suited for smart card applications. Large sensor size is vital to maximize security and performance. With proven manufacture-ability, reliability and security, NEXT's sensor is a perfect solution in this smart card application and a vital component for First Biometrics.”Charles Gomez, CEO of First Biometrics, added, “First Biometrics selected the NEXT large flexible fingerprint sensor as the most highly-secure, reliably accurate and cost-efficient sensor to achieve our objective of offering our clients and their customers the most secure card ever available. With wide application for a range of industries, we will initially focus our Smart Card on the hotel and casino industry where multi-level authentication and client protection is of utmost importance.”

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