Engineers at the Rutgers University have created a new security system that uses finger vibrations to verify users. The technology, called VibWrite, is a low-cost security system that could be used to gain access to anything with a solid surface, including access to homes, apartment buildings, appliances, and cars.
As Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick explains since everyone has different finger bone structure and everyone applies different pressure on surfaces, sensors that detect physiological and behavioral differences are ideal for identification and authentication.
VibWrite integrates behavioral and physiological characteristics with passcodes. In essence, this system uses touch-sensing techniques, password-based approaches, and behavioral biometric solutions, but also builds on all of these techniques. And equally important, VibWrite is low-cost and uses minimal power.
“Smart access systems that use fingerprinting and iris-recognition are very secure, but they’re probably more than ten times as expensive as our VibWrite system, especially when you want to widely deploy them,” said Chen.
The new system allows users to choose from lock pattern and gestures as well as from PINs to gain secure access. But what makes VibWrite truly unique is that it can be used on any solid surface beyond touch screens and any screen size.
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Rutgers University via Tech Xplore (https://techxplore.com/news/2017-10-vibwrite-finger-vibration-based.html)
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