Owing to the rapid growth of Information Technology, security has become a prime issue. Nowadays, biometrics plays a vital role in identifying a human's action that can present a threat to security applications like accessing a secure building or a system. Biometrics is used for identifying human's exclusive physiological, behavioural and morphological features to offer special visual recognition. Biometrics is a computerized method to identify a person or verify his uniqueness based on physiological characteristics. It has the ability to consistently differentiate between an authorised person and a shark The systems that are currently available are fingerprints, handprints, iris and retina patterns, face recognition and the number of systems that are close to biometrics is voices, signature and keystroke systems. In a few years, the use of biometrics will grow rapidly and turn it much more effective. Biometrics provides a new generation of security services to identify individuals based on the unique identification and measurable patterns in human activities. t is fast, easy to apply, precise, steadfast and a less expensive way of authentication for a variety of applications. This paper elucidates how biometric works and introduces some of the new technologies that make it possible. This paper also looks at the real-world applications of biometrics.
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