Fujitsu PalmSecure™

Contactless Biometric Authentication

The Contactless Biometric Technology provided by Fujitsu, “PalmSecure™”, may provide answers to the
various challenges faced by other biometrics today. The idea of scanning the complex blood vein pattern
having the deoxidized hemoglobin in the blood at a distance of 4-6 cms, is certainly difficult to bypass or
forge with the current available knowledge. This makes PalmSecure™ an ideal choice for implementation
on mass scale. So now … you may take an Oath … No Compromise on Identities!! informs Sanjay
Srivastava.

INTRODUCTION palm veins — it absorbs near-

infrared light. This makes it
When organizations possible to take a snapshot of
like Government, what's beneath the outer skin,
Financial Institutions, something very hard to read or
Healthcare Institutes steal. This pattern is recorded
and various Corporate by the sensor and is stored in
plan to issue Biometric encrypted form in a database,
IDs to their users, they on a token or on a smart card.
aim for operational efficiency pattern inside the palm,
driven by control on costs and provides a unique biometric The near-infrared rays in the
secured access to their key. Since the biometric palm vein scanner have no
programs. However, one characteristics required to be effect on the body when
element that haunts such authenticated resides inside the scanning.
implementations is its mass body, it is extremely difficult to
acceptability by the intended duplicate or transfer. The palm To verify or identify a
users and the minimization of vein pattern is so unique that person who is
its misuse to gain unauthorized even the left hand vein pattern already registered,
access, especially on monetary is different from that of right the detected vein
transactions, private hand. All these advantages pattern is compared
information and sensitive make PalmSecure™ an ideal with the pattern stored in the
information. Most of us are not choice for mass deployment, yet database for that person. Every
unaware of the vulnerability of maintaining high accuracy and person has a unique structure
the current biometric cost effectiveness. and position of veins in the palm
technologies and the possibilities of the hand and this does not
of fooling them. Continuous WHAT IS PALMSECURE™ change throughout the person's
research and technological life even twins have a unique
improvements in these The PalmSecure™ sensor vein pattern. Indeed each hand
technologies try to fill these gaps detects the structure of the has a unique pattern. Try
and Fujitsu’s PalmSecure™ is pattern of veins on the palm of logging in with your left hand
one such answer. the human hand with the after registering with your right,
utmost precision at a distance of and you'll be denied access.
Fujitsu’s PalmSecure™ takes 4-6 cms. The scanner
the advantage of the natural makes use of a special As the biometric
position of an individual’s palm characteristic of the information detected is
and using the wealth of reduced hemoglobin located inside the
information of the complex vein coursing through the human body and the
vein pattern is extremely
complex, it is impossible to
manipulate or falsify it using
current knowledge. The
PalmSecure technology is
designed in such a way that it
can only detect the vein pattern
of living people. The scanning
process is extremely fast and
does not involve any contact
meaning that PalmSecure meets
the stringent hygienic
requirements that are normally
necessary for use in public
environments.
Operation Principle
"Fingerprint scans and face
recognition ID methods are
associated with the police by
some people on a psychological
level," says Shigeru Sasaki,
director of Fujitsu's Media
Solutions Laboratory. "In public
areas, others don't like the
thought of touching what
everyone else has touched for
sanitary reasons. This is why we
created a contactless palm vein
scanner."
KEY APPLICATIONS AREAS
Due to the above special
characteristics, PalmSecure™
make an ideal choice for certain
key applications like :
- Visitor Verification : at Distribution and other social
various points in an benefits; thus ensuring
organization or location, protection against forgery of
specially applicable to cases various Govt. Documents,
like Airport Check-ins and etc.
boarding, monitoring and
 Banking : Palm Vein data
controlling visitors’
can be stored in smartcard
movement, etc.
and let verification takes
- Physical Access Control : at place locally at ATM.
very high security areas like
Parliament, Government  Medical Environment :
Offices, Critical R&D PalmSecure™ helps
Facilities, Defense maintaining the Hygiene
establishments, etc factor in these areas; allow
access of patients’ personal
- Logical Access Control :
data only to the authorized
Access to sensitive data,
person; helps in verifying
ATM Transaction (recently
during Medical Insurance.
newspapers reported that
Shah Rukh Khan’s credit  Airport / Airline Check-in :
card was misused), Access to Helps ensuring passenger
Private Data of Patients in identity during boarding
Hospitals, PC / Web Login, from check-in data; allow
etc. access in the plane and
sensitive areas only to the
- Monitoring and Managing
authorized staff, thus
various ID on large scale :
protecting against false
like on various e-Gov
authorization granted even
projects involving many
in case of twins.
identities, under various
programs.
Sector-wise, PalmSecure™ is
most ideal for
 Government Issuing
Biometric ID card, Passport,
Ration Cards, etc and
control its misuse; very
effective in maintaining
Land Records, Wages
Distribution, Pension
 Biometric Challenges Ease of Use /
System Authentication /
Cost
Voice Affected by Noise, Health Conditions, etc. High / Low / Low
(Contactless)
Fingerprint Affected by Dirt, Wet or Coated fingers High / High / Low
(Contact) especially workers in Tea Garden, Tobacco
Plantations, Automotive Plants, Field
workers, etc.; Concerns over public hygienic
Face Sensitive to Lighting / Posture; Affected by Medium / Low /
(Contactless) Eyeglasses, Facial hair, Cosmetics; Chances Low
of Unauthorized access to Twins
IRIS Located behind a curved, wet, reflecting High / Very High /
(Contactless) surface; Obscured by eyelashes, contact High
Internal Organ lenses, reflections; Deforms non-elastically as
of the Eye pupil changes size; Psychological resistance of
offering the eye to the sensor
PalmSecure™ Sensitive to Direct Sunlight / other direct Very High / Very
(Contactless) fluorescent lightings High / Low

Other areas : Enabling ignition 4. Todholm Primary School,

systems in Automobiles; Scotland : Cashless
System and folder Login; Payments for students
Access control at
apartments; Time and 5. City of Angles Medical
Attendance; Library ID Center, LA, USA : System
management; Student ID Login
management; Enabling
cashless payments; Hotel 6. Naka City Library, Japan :
room access, etc. Membership management

7. Corolinas Healtcare System,

INSTALLED BASE N & S Carolina, USA :
Patients registration
PalmSecure™ has been adopted
by various organizations around 8. Banco Bradesco, Brazil :
the Globe and is being used by ATM Solution
millions of people already.
9. National Institute of
1. Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, Radiological Sciences, Japan
Japan : Smartcard based : Logical access to patients
ATM data

2. Kingsway Corporation 10. Chiba Institute of

Limited (KCL), Hong Kong Technology, Japan : Student
: Access Control to data ID card.
centers
And many more …
3. University of Tokyo
Hospital, Japan : Physical CONCLUSION
Door Access Control
Fujitsu’s PalmSecure™ takes on
the challenges faced by many of
the current biometric
technologies available
today. The USP of being purely the Hong Kong SAR
contactless makes Government. Some also
PalmSecure™ an ideal choice wondered whether their
for deployment in various fingerprints would be protected
public programs and services as personal data under the
and addresses the concerns of privacy
public hygiene and convenience ordinance."
at a mass scale and providing
lower cost of operations and
maintenance cost.
ABOUT FUJITSU LIMITED
"During the trial some users Fujitsu ( www.fujitsu.com ) is a
had problems registering their leading provider of customer-
fingerprints. Some others were focused IT and communications
concerned over public hygiene solutions for the global
when everyone has to put their marketplace. Pace-setting
fingers on the sensor, bearing in device technologies, highly
mind the lessons learnt from the reliable computing and
SARS outbreak a couple of communications products, and a
years ago," said Mr Eric Wong, worldwide corps of systems and
Financial Director of Kingsway services experts uniquely
Corporation Limited (KCL), position Fujitsu to deliver
Hong Kong. KCL is a leading comprehensive solutions that
system integrator and data create infinite possibilities for its
centre service provider and has customers' success.
implemeted PalmSecure™ to Headquartered in Tokyo,
secure its data centers. "Some Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702)
users also hesitated in using the reported consolidated revenues
fingerprint system because it of 5.1 trillion yen (US$43.2
obviously reminded them of the billion) for the fiscal year ended
identification system adopted by
March 31, 2007. Fujitsu invests
a large amount on its R&D
activities and is continuously
working towards more Green
IT Revolution. It has been
recently rated as the Top Green-
IT Company by IDG's
Computerworld.
ABOUT FUJITSU INDIA
LIMITED
Fujitsu India Limited
(http://in.fujitsu.com/) is the
100% subsidiary of Fujitsu
Limited, Japan and promotes
various products and services of
Fujitsu in India. Fujitsu India
Limited is located at 15th Floor,
Building 9A, DLF Cyber City,
Phase – III, Gurgaon – 122 002,
Haryana, India. Tel : +91 (124)
470 5100. Fax : +91 (124) 470
5198. Email :
palmsecure.india@in.fujitsu.co
m. More information on
PalmSecure™ is available at
http://www.fujitsu.com/in/servic
es/palmsecure/