Sensors at your fingertips.

Sensors-at-your-finger-tips.

Fingerprint Cards is a hi-tech company that develops sensors for biometric identification (fancy talk for finger print readers). BOID was asked to help out with the design of a small series of demonstrator units meant to show of the possibilities with Fingerprint Cards’ technology.  The main focus was to show how neatly the sensors could be placed within a surface (for instance the inner casing of a laptop or smartphone). 

Big interest in biometric identification

The challenge was not only the design itself but also the time frame. Within three weeks we had to go from start to fully functional products. The reason, they had to be shipped to New Orleans for the big Microsoft conference TechEd 2013 and the unveiling of the next major update to Windows 8. Later this year, biometric identification will be natively supported by the operating system which creates interesting opportunities for laptop and tablet manufacturers, especially since Apple bought a similar company last year and by that hyped the technology through the roof.