The Fingerprint Recognition Technology

Security will always be an issue on mobile handheld devices. If anyone gains access to your pin or password, these shady figures will also gain access to your private data stored within the phone's memory. This will disastrous especially if your data falls in the wrong hands. This will never be the case with the Motorola Atrix. This happens to us at least once in the entire time that we have owned smartphones. In these cases, hackers make use of special programs to determine your unique password or personal identification number. This simply means that no matter what you put as your security entry, your data can still be accessed. With this dual-core smartphone by Moto, this is less likely to happen. The other option of accessing the handset's functions is unique to every user. Users access this handset via fingerprint recognition technology. Since fingerprints are unique to every person, the likelihood of someone else accessing this phone's data is almost impossible.

Fingerprint analysis and identification is a 100-year old science, with thousands of studies made and articles written, and thus confidence rates of more than 99%. It's the cheapest, fastest, most convenient and most reliable way to identify someone. That's why fingerprint alone has almost 60% of the biometric world market, according to the Biometrics Market and Industry Report 2007-2012 from the International Biometric Group. Cars, cell phones, PDAs, personal computers and dozens of products and devices are using fingerprints more and more. Fingerprint recognition can be used from criminal investigations to time attendance systems, in a movie rental or in a police identification institute. Aside from these security options, there is another security feature that users can make use of in case they lose this handset or if they fall into the wrong hands. Users can remotely wipe the device's memory. The remote wipe feature allows you to delete the contents in the phone's memory wherever you may be. This means that even if they did have the hacking talent to get through the phone's sophisticated security there will no longer be any data to access.

When a fingerprint is applied to - or passed over - the sensor window of the fingerprint reader, the fingerprint is scanned and a gray-scale image is captured. A special computer software then identifies the key minutiae points from the image. These points are then converted into a unique digital representation, called "template", comparable to a very big password. There are a number of different ways to get an image of a fingerprint, and the most common methods today for electronic fingerprint readers are optical scanning and capacitance scanning. A fingerprint is taken and compared to each fingerprint in the database of registered users. When a match occurs, the user is "identified" as the existing user the system found. Since the newly acquired fingerprint is compared to many stored fingerprints, Fingerprint recognition technology is unique to this powerful smartphone.