biometrics Tag

08 Mar How smart is your home?

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Get ready for your smart home. Interest in home automation, security and monitoring, and lifestyle IoT technologies is growing rapidly. According to BI Intelligence research, “the number of smart home devices shipped will grow from 83 million in 2015 to 193 million in 2020. This includes all smart appliances (washers, dryers, refrigerators, etc.), smart home safety and security systems (sensors, monitors, cameras, and alarm systems), and smart home energy equipment, like smart thermostats and smart lighting. How do you manage and control your smart home and all of these devices? The smart approach to interacting with and controlling smart technology is to turn the human hand and fingers into a dynamic touchscreen display. Wearing a standalone smartphone eliminates the need to carry a phone or access a laptop because the person becomes the console and controller. When a human hand becomes the display, touch screen, gesture interface and command center for smart technology, life is simplified. Advanced biometrics enable people to effortlessly lock and unlock doors, or remotely access their home, vehicles and all of their networked appliances. People can live stream media content and video games with voice, gesture, touch screen and projection interfaces. In their Connected Home Forecast, research firm NPD Connected Intelligence claimed that by the end of 2019, 238 million installed devices are expected to be connected to the Internet and able to deliver apps to TVs, representing 59 percent growth from 2015 to 2019. The Internet of Things is set to change how we live, work and play. At eyeCam we focus on enabling OEMs to license, acquire and rapidly introduce groundbreaking new products to market and secure a faster ROI....

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21 Dec eyeCam Raises $1.5 Million on Crowdfunder for Innovative Wearable Platform

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We are thrilled to announce that eyeCam has received $1.5 Million in reservations on leading equity crowdfunding site Crowdfunder (www.crowdfunder.com/eyecam).  Investors are coming on board daily as we continue to generate momentum and interest in the prototype development of eyeHand™ The Wearable Smartphone and adaptive display system. Companies like Google, Intel and Apple have invested heavily in wearables, biometrics and 3D interfacing technologies and we see the growing interest in eyeHand as an extension of that trend.  Moreover, the success of our Crowdfunder campaign speaks to investor confidence that eyeHand will change the way that consumers and companies communicate, perform tasks and interface with the world eyeCam is developing the prototype of eyeHand™ The Wearable Smartphone that turns the hand and fingers into a touchscreen display, 3D mouse and controller, leveraging biometrics to create a secure key, wallet and Internet of Things command center. eyeCam is an engine of innovation and technology as a service (TaaS) company whose focus is product design for acquisition, we design and engineer products for other companies to manufacture and sell as their own.  eyeCam is pioneering wearable computing products, applications and services that free users entirely from handheld phones. The overwhelmingly positive reaction to our crowdfunding campaign has been an exciting affirmation of our values ideas and direction.  This is just the beginning! Come join us.  To be a part of the movement, check out our Crowdfunding Campaign. (www.crowdfunder.com/eyecam)....

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06 Apr Why Biometrics are here to stay: (Hint, it’s because you become the key to your world.)

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Biometric identification is technology that either identifies you or authenticates your identity. You can be identified by matching your picture against a database of imagery or you can be authenticated when an image has been accessed from a specific device. When you unlock a computer, a phone or an application, you are authenticated to confirm a match. This is most often done with a finger print. Integrating a biometric key and wallet into a standalone wearable smartphone means that people are entirely free from passwords, keys and credit cards. When Apple first launched the user-friendly biometric identification on the iPhone in 2013, it was novel and new.  Now that people are more comfortable with a home button fingerprint sensor that authenticates the user and unlocks a phone, more companies are introducing biometrics into their products. Such as: MasterCard is investigating using your heartbeat to verify purchases Google is going to confirm you are you with speech patterns You can use the CLEARlane to go through security at the airport by tapping your finger According to Acuity Market Intelligence report, there have been over 200 biometric smartphones introduced since 2013 and the data suggests that there are at least 600 million biometric smartphones being used around the world. Even more exciting is the fact that Acuity projects a huge uptick in annual revenues for the carriers who offer biometric capabilities.  The research estimates that the global mobile market revenues from over 4.8 Billion biometric enabled smartphones will reach $6.2 B by 2020. "Biometrics are a natural fit for the smart mobile devices we literally hold onto nearly every waking hour. The explosion in the use of smart devices over the past five years, along with anticipated growth over the next five -- especially in developing economies where sub $100 smartphones have begun to alter the mobile landscape -- will bring biometrics into the daily lives of half the global population. By 2020, 100% of smart mobile devices will include embedded biometric sensors as a standard feature" C. Maxine Most Principal, Acuity Market Intelligence - See more at: http://www.acuity-mi.com/GBMR_Report.php#sthash.F8tfSUmd.dpuf With a biometric key and wallet, people can effortlessly lock and unlock doors, avoid security lines and make payments instantly and securely.  In fact, multi-layered and continuous biometric user (wearer) identification provides an extremely high level of security.  eyeHand biometrics will revolutionize consumer and enterprise security....

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06 Apr Connected Health and Safety: The Wearable Smartwatch as a Lifeline

Posted at 03:44h in Health and Wellness, Smartphone, Sport, untether 0 Comments
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In an emergency, few people are going to think about grabbing their cell phone and opening an app to get help. For a wearable device to really be a lifeline, it needs to autonomously text or call family, friends, doctors or emergency services with real-time location and health data providing potentially life-saving information in an emergency.  We know that continuously monitoring your vital signs can recognize an abnormal heartbeat, temperature, seizure or fall. It has been proven that connected health delivers clear benefits. Doctors can remotely monitor a patient’s health status outside of office hours with bio-sensing wearables.  In fact, this is proving to be very helpful in supporting older adults that want to age in place. With the advancements in sensors and software and the innovations in wearables, your smartwatch can become more than a monitoring device --- it can be your lifeline. Think of a wearable smartphone as a medical assistant capable of continuously monitoring a wearer's health and in case of an emergency autonomously contacting a medical professional or emergency responder with real-time medical and location data and instructions without user input. A wearable with advanced sensors is extremely valuable when it can provide wearer verification, safety and security. In 2015, 39.5 million U.S. adults 18 and over used wearable devices, including smartwatches and fitness trackers — an increase of 57.7 percent over 2014, according to eMarketer. Sadly, today’s wearable market is filled with accessories, including health and fitness monitors that are dependent on handheld smartphones for most functionality including networking, applications, and interfacing.  It is time to eliminate the need for handheld phones to get the most out of a wearable. “There is demand for a more sophisticated class of activity tracker that supports GPS and heart rate monitoring while also being a little more rugged and waterproof. And while we see the simpler fitness trackers potentially hitting a wall, these advanced devices will continue to drive adoption,” said Eddie Hold, vice president, Connected Intelligence. eyeCam’s focus is to deliver products and services with the appropriate set of features that uniquely address how humans interface with mobile technology. For example, eyeHand’s sensor hub and 3D interface projected onto the hand frees users entirely from handheld phones. Your hand and fingers become your display, touchscreen, gesture interface, and command center.    ...

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