Lumidigm’s Phil Scarfo penned an article for the April 2009 issue Global Identification magazine entitled “Planning for Success”. Mr. Scarfo discussed ways to ensure that a biometric system is successful, including selecting appropriate components and understanding costs in the context of achieving system goals.
The mark of every successful biometric solution is a thorough planning process and the careful selection of technology and solution vendor. The great promise of biometrics can only be achieved if it can effectively serve all users, anyplace and anytime. If the technology is only able to work for some users some of the time, it becomes an expensive barrier to success. Successful applications are deployed when a biometric truly is the best solution to a problem, when an ROI analysis includes the impact of technology choices on all application costs, and when the effect of the real world on performance is fully understood.
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