Biometrics have made regular appearances on annual “Next Big Thing” lists for a couple of decades. But the technology has never quite taken off the way people expected. Certainly, there are industries that make heavy use of biometrics. But other industries resist, seeing little need to collect fingerprints and eye scans or use facial recognition.
Those are the most common biometric tools, often associated with physical access systems. Fingerprint collection, for example, is common in financial services and government. Eye scan technology is more of a niche biometric tool used in high-security industries. Capturing an individual’s photo is done frequently in many workplaces. This photo is then used to create company badges or identification.
