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HOLMDEL, N.J., Oct. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BIO-key® International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKYI), an innovative provider of workforce and customer identity and access management (IAM) solutions featuring Identity-Bound Biometrics (IBB) for phoneless, tokenless, passwordless and phish-resistant authentication, announced that it has received a $910,000 order from a long-term financial services customer to upgrade to BIO-key’s “fingerprint only” Biometric Customer Identification Technology.
The technology enhancement builds on the customer’s expanding deployment of BIO-key technology to verify the identity of customers, now totaling over 25 million enrolled individuals. Previously customers were verified at a branch location by matching their fingerprint scan and their ID number, account number or card. By upgrading to BIO-key’s “fingerprint only” identification, the customer will be able to identify each of its clients by a simple fingerprint scan – without the need for a card, account or ID number, saving an estimated thirty seconds per client encounter.
The financial services customer plans to upgrade all its users to BIO-key’s fingerprint-only identity solution in order to further streamline what is already a best-in-class client experience of its existing BIO-key-based verification solution. The new client identification solution will be entirely hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in order to support the technical demands of real-time, one-to-many biometric identification as compared to one-to-one matching of a fingerprint scan with a biometric associated with an account number, ID number or card.
Following full deployment of the enhanced biometric customer identification solution during 2025, BIO-key expects annual recurring revenue (ARR) from this financial services customer to increase to approximately $1.4M per year.
“This financial services customer remains on the cutting edge of biometric technology deployment as it works to deliver the best possible customer experience and protection against fraud”, said Jim Sullivan, BIO-key’s SVP of Strategy and CLO. “After closely working with our team on advance testing, they found that upgrading to BIO-key’s one-to-many fingerprint-only identification technology would not only provide a better user experience but would also save a substantial amount of time at every client encounter, avoiding the time to retrieve a physical ID card. BIO-key’s unparalleled accuracy in identification and speed of indexed search makes this leap in efficient customer engagement possible. The upgrade advances our customer’s commitment to leveraging the power of biometric technology to execute secure digital, paper-less transactions for their clients. We believe this is one of the world’s largest deployments of one-to-many biometric technology in a private commercial or enterprise setting. Working with the client and our partner at AWS, we intend to publish a more detailed whitepaper on this deployment in order to support other enterprises’ understanding the benefits our advanced biometric identity solutions can provide.”