From the Fingerscan website:
fingerscan.com.au
Ongoing R&D
A team of 12 staff continues to refine the product and its operating systems. A new, cost-down (and dramatically smaller) product, code-named F3, is now in beta release. This product will address the emerging markets of EFTPOS and ATM terminals, as well as home-based and personal PC access.
Flexible Manufacturing Planning
A close relationship with Fujitsu has been instrumental in coping with flexible growth. As of early 1997, manufacturing is now divided between Fujitsu and Datacraft (who also have advanced, ISO9000-rated production facilities in Australia). This policy gives greater flexibility to our delivery programs, and provides redundancy, should one manufacturer encounter a major problem which could halt production.
Also, from an Australian news article -
According to Mr Parselle, Fingerscan has sold 18,000 scanning units to 4000 locations in 35 countries, claiming 80 per cent of the nascent finger-scanning market and about 65 per cent of the overall $US100 million ($134.4 million) biometrics market. The larger market takes in retina, face and hand scanning.
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