A new app developed by Toronto company
Bionym puts heartbeats at the centre of identification. In response to increased security protection concerns, tech security experts are looking to new and advanced ways of using biometric features in identification recognition technologies. With technology usually reserved for military and government buildings, these companies hope biometric features will eventually be infiltrated into online security measures such as account passwords.
Bionym's new product HeartID contains a security feature that is almost impossible to replicate, writes the International Business Times, and "definitely could not be hacked…unlike traditional passwords and pins."
The article explains: "The app analyses the pattern of a person's heartbeat, picks out the variation in the waves that create a biometric template distinct to that individual. The template remains distinct even if a person exercises or is stressed which causes the wave to compress but the shape remains the same."
"That means the system could recognize a person regardless of his heart rate, said Karl Martin, the president and chief executive officer of Bionym. He said the company is licensing the software to other companies and working to have the app placed directly in smartcards, tablets and smartphones."
These apps work by holding the devices near your heart where an embedded sensor then reads your heartbeat.
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?Original Source: International Business Times