Biometrics became popular in the twenty first century but actually this technology came into existence thousands year back. The countries that are believed as the founders of this amazing technology are china and Egypt.
The first biometric finger printing sample was recorded by a European explorer Joao de Barros during the 14th century in china, this is why china is considered to be the first country that had biometric signs. The samples prove that Chinese businessmen used an ink to take the biometric finger prints of their workers for identification. Even India has some proves of finger printing in the ancient times. Other researches have indicates that there was body mechanics used in ancient times to study various criminals.
At that time the technology was not so advanced but still there is some knowledge of finger printing being used at that time. The civilization used finger prints to catch thieves and to find misplaced people. As mentioned they didn’t had the technology then to use biometrics as a key to open doors or locks. Nowadays the scenario is different; biometrics has many branches, each of which deals with different aspect of human traits.
The most important application of biometrics is to maintain a database of terrorists’ and other unsocial elements, so that they can be matched to find out their link in some cases. It only takes few seconds to search a person in the database and the results and immaculate and dead right. There is no chance of any discrepancy in biometric matching as no two persons on the earth can have their physical traits exactly similar.
Earlier the stress was on finger printing but now the stress is on face reorganization techniques that involve retina matching and face reading. Even DNA can be matched is the database is up to date. Some other ancient biometric methods used metric like the space between the person’s ears and nose. These methods are still being used in some places.
Signature biometrics was developed in the late 1960s and 70s which used facial reading as signatures of the persons and hence were popular at their times. But this technique didn’t have what it deserved and was replaced by the finger printing. It is today that we understand how important facial reading is for unique matching. Thus we can conclude that biometrics was there in the ancient times but was suppressed because of lack of innovative ideas and was limited to finger printing.
by Camila 1 year ago
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