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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.’s Panasonic System Solutions Company has developed the “Walkthrough Iris Identification System” able to verify a walking person’s iris.

Iris identification is a biometric authentication technology that does not require IDs or passwords, which users could forget. Biometric authentication technologies, however, face a challenge that the verification is not always accurate, but this iris identification system features a low verification failure rate of below 1/1,200,000.

The new system is more natural and easy to use compared with existing systems, because it does not require people who are verified to focus on the equipment. Target applications are monitoring systems set at offices and airport gates, through which a number of passengers walk in a limited period of time.

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