You can find applications for stripped-down products without a false finger detector, but that's not where the mainstream market is going to be.
Where you have the scan in the presence of another person, true, you won't need it as much. Not going to be too many of those. ATM's will need it, for sure. Corporate enterprise security will need it. Scanners to be used in networked financial applications (early adaptors) will need it. HMOs will need it. Insurance companies will need it. The military will need it.
I guess you might not need it for retailing at-home PCs for consumer use, but this market will hit late compared to the others, by which time it will probably be standard equipment.
The point is, if GDER considers it only as an add-on, they are selling an essentially noncompetitive stripped down product, or just lowballing their price by referencing the non-detecting model.
There haven't been many actual sales yet in the finger bio-ID market, but the $99 Compaq/IDT product -- which is shipping -- has false finger protection. The IDX F3 technology has it also, and I would bet you it's also present in offerings by I/O Software (Sony Puppy), BII, and probably U r U by Digital Persona and any Veridicom products.
When you said "Current finger print reading devices for low end uses such as PC access, applications DO NOT HAVE dead finger detection built into them," what products are you talking about?
If you were a buyer for a corporate network who went to biometrics as the highest level of available security, how would you like to explain to the COO that someone just hacked your system with a wax imitation of a finger? If GDER technical staff can't imagine a market for it, they will find out the hard way. |
