Biometric wearables firm Nymi and access identity company Entertech have revealed plans to partner on a project involving biometric access control for physical spaces and logical systems within the enterprise.The partnership will see the Nymi Band, which uses ECG for authentication, combined with Entertech's enterprise identity platform, BioConnect.The companies have said the efforts of this partnership will be demonstrated in a set of pilots launching this fall, whereby the Nymi Band will be used by employees at participating companies to access floors and office spaces, central security rooms and server cabinets, and to lock and unlock computer terminals.The participating companies will span a variety of industries including online social networking services, professional services, and data centers, said Nymi. These organizations already leverage Entertech's BioConnect platform for physical access control to the most critical areas of their facilities. Participants of these pilots will use the Nymi Band for biometrically authenticated access to secure physical areas, as well as logical access to Windows and Mac-based workstations.As a part of these pilots, employees will authenticate to the Nymi Band using HeartID, Nymi's proprietary biometric technology that verifies a user's identity based on their unique cardiac rhythm (or ECG).The NFC-enabled Nymi Band will allow users to open doors and access server racks, simply by tapping the wearable device against an existing BioConnect-enabled Suprema reader. Participants will also be using Nymi Lock Control, an application that will allow them to lock and unlock their Windows or Mac computers without the need to enter a password.At the conclusion of these initial pilots, the participating companies will explore additional integrations with Nymi and Entertech's technologies. Additionally, a set of access control manufacturers will be taking part in pilots, seeking to explore applications of the technology with access control software for current and future customers.”We're very excited to announce this partnership as we see Nymi as an emerging leader in the 'Bring Your Own Identity' (BYOI) movement,” said Rob Douglas, Founder and CEO of Entertech and their BioConnect enterprise identity platform. “Like the desire to use your own laptop or mobile device at work (BYOD), personal biometrics give individuals control over the biometric, allowing them greater privacy and convenient one-size-fits-all use to company property, both physical and logical. We see a world where the individual decides use of a personal biometric in the workplace. What was missing is the platform to help enterprises translate true identity information connected to the world's existing access control infrastructure, and that's why we created BioConnect.”Karl Martin, Nymi's Founder and CEO, explains, “As Nymi continues to build-out its value proposition within the enterprise space, the addition of physical access capabilities to our expanding logical access applications is an important development and we're happy to be partnering with Entertech to launch the first pilots that will test unified access with our wearable device.”
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