Fujitsu shows PC mouse-based palm vein biometrics

Published 11 September 2007

Fujitsu begin sales to corporation of a PC mouse which contains palm vein biometric sensor: A user holds the mouse to activate the PC and in the process his or her identity is authenticated

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Frontech Limited have unveiled a PC Login Kit for use with the PalmSecure palm vein biometric authentication device and begun sales of a mouse model and a standard model for corporate users. PalmSecure PC Login Kit comes standard with login-authentication software, enabling client-side authentication and eliminating the need to use an authentication server, which had been required up until now. Logins to PCs or applications until now required IDs and passwords, but can now be done using the palm vein biometric authentication method.

The impetus for developing palm vein biometrics came as part of efforts to comply with Japan’s Personal Information Protection Law and enhanced internal corporate compliance policies. In 2004 Fujitsu and Fujitsu Frontech commercialized the PalmSecure palm vein biometric authentication device, and since then the companies have provided the technology to financial institutions and other industries and organizations for use in login to PCs, physical admission into secured areas, management for work time clocks, and library book lending systems. The palm vein login kit unveiled this week is located in the PC’s mouse.