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Published on April 18, 2008

Jirapan Boonnoon

The Nation

Kittipong Wichaidit, marketing director of Fujitsu Systems Business (Thailand), said the company started working on palm- vein technology in 2000. The new technology provides high accuracy in security applications by using palm identification.

 The palm-vein technology consists of a small scanner that is easy to use, fast and highly accurate. One simply needs to hold one's palm a few centimetres over the scanner and in a second the scanner reads the unique vein pattern. A picture is taken and the pattern is registered and transferred to a database. The technology utilises the unique pattern of the veins in the palm which are distinct even among identical twins.

Kittipong said the palm-vein technology is a secure, biometric authentication system which verifies an individual's identity by recognising the pattern of the veins in the palm.

"In the global market, the use of palm-secure technology is rapidly growing, especially in Japan, at an annual growth rate of 29 per cent a year," he said.

 Vein technology is expected to  support the need for secure, accurate identification in industry sectors such as finance, banking, healthcare and education.

In Thailand, Fujitsu will distribute the technology directly.