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Access control is currently the principal focus of LG's
business with the LG IrisAccess 3000 platform. As the
successor to the IrisAccess 2200 it, too, is widely deployed
in both public and private sectors around the world, providing
state-of-the-art access control to organizations valuing
human and physical assets. Depending on the level of security
required, it may serve as the access control point for
an entire facility, or it may be deployed in a particularly
sensitive area of company operations.
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| One area in which LG is gaining considerable attention
and acceptance for IrisAccess is in data center
access control. The repositories of information
regarding business, employees, customers and competitors
contain a company's most valuable asset - information
compiled over time at considerable expense. Forward
thinking organizations know there is a lot more
to data security than firewalls and redundancy,
or even off-site back-up. The value proposition
for ensuring that the highest level of security
is in place to ensure only those who need access
and who have the appropriate privileges gain access
to a company or government business "nerve
center" is compelling and easily grasped by
most data center managers. LG counts some of the
most data-dependent organizations in the world among
its customers. |
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| One area in which LG is gaining considerable attention
and acceptance for IrisAccess is in data center
access control. The repositories of information
regarding business, employees, customers and competitors
contain a company's most valuable asset - information
compiled over time at considerable expense. Forward
thinking organizations know there is a lot more
to data security than firewalls and redundancy,
or even off-site back-up. The value proposition
for ensuring that the highest level of security
is in place to ensure only those who need access
and who have the appropriate privileges gain access
to a company or government business "nerve
center" is compelling and easily grasped by
most data center managers. LG counts some of the
most data-dependent organizations in the world among
its customers. |
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| With Homeland Security issues an ever present
concern, and events of the past summer making only
too clear how dependent the country is on safe secure
power, it's reassuring to know LG's IrisAccess platforms
protect and control access to both conventional
and nuclear power plants and water treatment and
distribution facilities. Inquiries from federal
and more regional levels in the U.S. and abroad
suggest this will be a growing area of importance
for both the technology and LG. |
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Iris recognition and LG's IrisAccess platforms
have already made inroads into the area of transportation
security - in Amsterdam's Schiphol, London's Heathrow,
New York's Kennedy, Germany's Frankfurt, Canada's
Vancouver, and Greece's Athens airports, just part
of a list that grows longer every month. Interestingly,
the technology is used for more than just controlling
access to sensitive areas of the airport's operations.
Amsterdam's Schipohl has a program called Privium¢â
developed and implemented by Dartagnan Biometric
Solutions, using the technology and the IrisAccess
platform for passenger processing/border clearance.
With biometrics soon to be contained in passports,
and on travel documents themselves and the need
to get more than 1.5 billion people from "here
to there" every year, there is most definitely
a role for this highly accurate technology to authenticate
customers with confidence and speed them on their
way. |
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One area in which there's a premium placed
on access control is in the pharmaceutical-biotech-healthcare
space. Access control is important to companies
that spend hundreds of millions, even billions,
developing new drugs. Compromising security in
such environments can lead to lost market advantage,
jeopardized clinical trials, etc. This area is
also one where a considerable amount of work is
being done on disease control or even bio-terror
threat assessment and prevention. Regular hospitals
and clinic facilities also seek more robust security
for sensitive areas, such as pharmacy where controlled
substances are kept, and areas like nuclear medicine
where tighter control of materials and waste has
been mandated by Homeland Security directives.
One of the principal appeals of the LG IrisAccess
3000 is the platform's ability to provide non-contact
authentication - an ideal solution for environments
where rubber gloves, masks, safety glasses or
goggles are the norm rather than the exception.
No other technology can accommodate the rubber
glove/goggles/mask challenge with anything that
approaches the efficacy of the LG IrisAccess 3000.
Hospital providers and Insurance payers are also
starting to look to iris recognition and its ability
to secure access and definitively authenticate
identity as a potential answer to the patient
record data management challenges stemming from
the adoption and future enforcement of HIPAA patient
privacy provisions.
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| Iris recognition technology is finding its way
into the education sector - not just for security
but for other applications as well. It's being used
in daycare and schools to restrict access and establish
the identity of school employees, as well as parents
or other adults who come to school to pick up particular
children. (When used this way, there is a list of
enrolled individuals who are "bound" to
a particular child's identity. The child can only
be released to these individuals.) Other schools
have piloted programs in which LG's IrisAccess is
used to authenticate identity and manage school
lunch programs, allowing for non-stigmatized cashless
authentication at the cashier. This ensures that
students getting government support are properly
identified, and that correct charges are made to
students whose parents provide funds for lunch. |
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