Access control - technology, people on the move

Access control and regulation of resources are cornerstones of modern commercial security strategies (PRLog.org)

Part of the reason for this is because of the practical value that biometric technology offers and the strength it has in comparison with alternatives such as cards, PINs and/or passwords, says Coetzee.

“The monitoring of people's movements and their access to areas has become increasingly sophisticated in the past few years through the use of fingerprint biometric identification systems. Unfortunately, the traditional alternatives are just not secure enough methods of access control as they can be lost, stolen or forgotten. With a competent, robust biometric system based on fingerprints, you simply can't cheat the system.”

They're better solutions at lower cost.