
Fingerprint supports Thales’s fourth-generation biometric payment card

Fingerprint Cards in Sweden has provided key technology for the fourth generation of Thales Gemalto biometric payment card, which is ready for global volume mass deployment.
The new Thales cards use the Fingerprint T-Shape sensor (T2) and biometric payment software platform, offers users advanced transaction speed, improved power efficiency and enhanced security.
- Infineon teams for biometric payment cards
- ST teams for biometric payment
- Energy harvesting fingerprint system-on-card
The T2 sensor module, part of the Fingerprint FPC1300-series, of which it has shipped more than one million units, enables cost-effective production of biometric payment cards.
Dual row packaging allows the biometric sensor to be customised for easy integration using standard automated manufacturing processes. This reduces waste, optimizes production capacity and throughput and lowers manufacturing costs.
The fourth generation Thales card also comes with enhanced security features, including encryption, which adds additional privacy layers to the storage and communication of biometric data.
Interest from banks in the biometric payment card continues to grow says Fingerprint Cards with 24 pilots and 10 commercial roll outs for fingerprint-enabled bank cards.
www.thalesgroup.com/; www.fingerprints.com/solutions/payments
