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Web services look to revolutionize biometrics

Wednesday, June 15, 2011


New protocols could cut cord to biometric readers, end need for software drivers

By Jill Jaracz, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications

The National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST) is working to establish protocols to ease implementation and increase interoperability for biometric devices. A team within NIST sees Web services as the key to extending biometrics across platforms, solutions and devices.

The Biometric Web Services (BWS) project, a five-person team within NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory Image Group, is creating specifications for biometric devices to use Web services for interoperability.

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Ross Micheals Permalink
June 15, 2011 10:55 AM

More information about our work can be found at http://bws.nist.gov.

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