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Homeland Security

Lumidigm, i-Evo Partner on Fingerprint Access Control Readers

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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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Lumidigm says that Britain's i-Evo is using its multispectral imaging sensors to produce a line of extremely versatile fingerprint readers that can be used both indoors and outdoors, including in harsh environments where most biometric readers won't work. Lumidigm says the new readers read through snow, cold, water, dust, oil, creams and latex gloves. Lumidigm says that i-Evo has made the readers so that they integrate easily with existing card and fob systems. "Biometrics has proven time and time again…

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