AFRICA

Suprema, a global leader in biometrics and identity solutions and provider of the BioSign fingerprint authentication algorithm, today announced that the company entered into partnership with Egis Technology Inc., a leading global provider of fingerprint sensors.

 

The partnership will bring a solid layer of security and robustness, to the mobile fingerprint authentication of top-tier smartphone manufacturers, by blending world’s leading Suprema BioSign fingerprint algorithm and Egis’ advanced sensor technologies.

 

Earlier this year, Suprema launched BioSign, a mobile fingerprint authentication solution at MWC 2016, which was derived from the company’s 16 years of expertise in biometrics.

 

Supporting the world’s smallest fingerprint sensor size is the key advantage of BioSign over competition. While reducing the size of the sensor, BioSign provides improved authentication performance compared to existing technologies.

 

“In general, fingerprint authentication performance has a strong co-relation with the size of sensors. While smaller sensors often result in poorer accuracy, BioSign overcomes such inherent limitations, providing even superior performance with the smallest sensor on the market. This breakthrough will provides direct benefits in cost reduction to manufacturers,” said Brian Song, CEO at Suprema.

 

In addition, BioSign provides an unrivaled level of security by achieving the lowest error rate (False Acceptance Rate) amongst the competition, and performs over 300% faster in authentication speed while using 50% of the memory used by conventional solutions. Such advantages also make BioSign an optimal choice for low-end smartphone markets where  the adoption of fingerprint sensors is emerging today.

 

 “The latest market trend of growing demand for mid-range smartphones has significantly increased the need for a reduction in costs without sacrifice to performance or features. BioSign’s capability to work with smaller sensors will help with cost reduction efforts.”

 

 “At Suprema, we are expecting more growth potential from mid-to-low range smartphone segments as BioSign is designed to support low-cost smaller sensors and takes less memory than existing solutions. BioSign is now being tested at a number of top-tier smartphone producers and we expect successful market entry in the near future,” Song added.

 

Earlier to this contract, Egis Technology Inc. announced that the company’s fingerprint sensors have been selected for the Samsung Galaxy A5 and Galaxy C7 models.

 

About Egis Technology Inc.

As a leading provider of fingerprint biometrics, Egis Technology Inc. specializes in providing a total turnkey solution with superior sensor performance and software functionality. Egis’ leading edge fingerprint technology is the ideal choice for implementation in mobile devices. As a board member of the FIDO Alliance, Egis aims to provide security and authentication for all in the online world. Egis is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan with a branch office located in China and subsidiaries in Japan and USA.

 

For more information, please visit www.egistec.com.

"Egis Technology and Suprema partner together to provide mobile fingerprint authentication solutions for top tier smartphone producer"

Press Release

31 October 2016

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