Activate the phone with heart rate

By simply touching the screen, users can activate individual electronic devices when they confirm their heart rate.

Smart phones, tablets, game consoles and other devices may soon identify the owner with just one touch. This is thanks to sensors that measure the heart rate through the fingertips.

Heart rate is unique

Usually, doctors often have to paste sensors on the patient's chest if they want to have an ECG (ECG) for them. Recently, researchers have developed thin and inexpensive sensors, which allow measurements from the fingertips. These sensors can allow heart rate measurements to be embedded in smartphones and other devices, even though they are not exactly as they are done by a doctor. Besides, when looking at the electrocardiogram before, the heart rate of all human beings has the same shape, each beat represents an up or down line for every shot. Now, the experts discovered an unexpected reality which is the shape of those up-and-down lines that are different in each person. Each person's electrocardiogram is unique, and that particularity remains in place as the heart rate changes with excitement or during exercise, as well as does not change over time.

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'ECG biometric technique (electrocardiography) allows people to be identified by heart rate. Not only the number of beats per minute, but through the heartbeat chart , ' Foteini Agrafioti, engineer at the University of Toronto (Canada), who developed this technology version and recently created Bionym Company to introduce products ' HeartID ' to market. 'Any device you use with both hands, like an iPad or a smartphone, can install the ECG identification application'.

The ideal key

Different computerized ECG analysis programs often give slightly different results, but overall, they are accurate enough to be used for specific identification systems, according to Agrafioti expert. Even the Bionym website suggests using the 'HeartID' program for police or military. However, Ana Fred, an engineer at the Technical University in Lisbon (Portugal), is also studying the technology, arguing that ECG is not ready for high-security purposes. Fingerprints are still more accurate, but heart rate analysis can be added to enhance device security.

Adrian Chan, an engineer at Carleton University (Canada), added that the sensor also ensures that the signer must be a living person, not like in a movie the bad guys can cut a person's finger and use it to invade system. Chan also reiterated a study in 20120, whereby the fingerprint scanner was fooled with transparent fingers printing fingerprints of people with login rights. According to TechNewsDaily, the researchers all agree that sensors that measure the heart rate will make fake actions harder to perform, because the heart rate is hidden inside each person's body and thus cannot be "taken." can steal

In short, according to experts, heartbeat recognition, embedded in a mobile phone or tablet, can prevent intruders or ensure privacy for each user. suffered. In addition, this identification method can be added or complemented to other biometric measures, such as fingerprints. And unlike some other super-fantasy projects, heartbeat recognition has the advantage of being available and available at any time.