New PalmID technology allows unlocking with palm

A San Francisco company called Redrock Biometrics has studied a security tool that uses the palm of a user.

According to Android Authority, the advanced biometric security technologies used on current smartphones such as Samsung's iris scanning or 3D face recognition (FaceID) are of great interest and gradually become a trend, however, the limitation of these methods is that the device requires special hardware to support the technology.

Recently, Redrock Biometrics, a San Francisco startup, has developed a security tool based on the palm of the user with the name PalmID . This technology uses the palm as a security key to authenticate on a variety of online and offline services. The company's president, Lenny Kontsevich, said PalmID could be considered an enlarged version of the fingerprint sensor technology but uses a rich hand structure. It can also be identified by a regular camera.

The company claims their authentication technology is safer and more practical than any face detection method. PalmID can use palm images taken by any camera with a resolution of 0.3 MP or more and can authenticate at a very fast speed, depending on the CPU speed.

According to TechCrunch, the technology will convert the palm image into a signature form that Redrock considers unique and not forged. Almost every device with a camera can use PalmID, including smartphones, ATMs, desktop computers and AR / VR devices.

PalmID can also login quickly on many mobile platforms such as Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. According to Redrock, identifying palms is not hampered by scars, smudges, or luminosity not enough to take pictures. Just put your hands in front of the camera within a distance of 6 inches or more, the device will authenticate the login, verify the identity when making payments, work through the bank. Don't worry about someone seeing your palm and copying unless you take a picture of your palm on your personal page for everyone to know (you probably won't do it right? ).