Advantages of Iris Biometric Authentication System

Noman Ahmed
Biometric Blog
Published in
2 min readMar 15, 2019

Iris biometric authentication system is being used in many countries to identify millions of people for several issues around the world. The technology is easy to use and difficult to be forged. It has been used in different projects and gateways like healthcare, national ID and immigration for its advantages, features, and benefits.

Iris Biometric Authentication

Among the different biometric modalities like a fingerprint, finger vein, palm vein, facial, retina, etc. iris is one of the most reliable ones. Iris biometric authentication is the complex mathematical pattern recognition technique that identifies the unique and stable video images of the single or both irises of an individual which is possible to distinguish from a distance range.

Advantages of Iris Biometric Authentication System

The characteristics of an iris are significantly unique for each and can be recognized from a distance. That’s why it is challenging to be forged and compared to other biometric modalities false acceptance rate and the false rejection rate is remarkably lower. Such way it becomes most secured authentication technology and has been used in hospitals, borders, financial institutes, and several sensitive projects.

Some of the most critical advantages of iris biometric authentication system are:

Accuracy

The iris authentication matches the complex mathematical patterns of the irises which are significantly unique for each. A comprehensive study on biometric authentication found that the false rejection rate of iris authentication is only 1.8% which is the lowest.

Scalability

Iris biometric authentication is highly scalable for any size of a project. The technology has been deployed in many government projects like National ID or immigration as well as in healthcare services. Click to continue reading

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