Lock without a key (Part 1)
Both fantastic strengthening of locks and doors, nor new technologies of confidential flutes and “floating” pins in grooves of keys, rescue from room thefts. The most advanced citizens have already understood it and have started to equip the houses with the biometric locks, working by a principle of “owner recognition” on his individual bioparameters. In experts???????? opinion such locking devices have the big future. Though they, as well as any other supersensitive electronics, possess not only advantages, but also lacks.
Development in the field of biometric security techniques were conducted from the beginning of 90th by the several companies in the USA the, Europe and Japan simultaneously. But in real life they became demanded only about six years ago. While the market share of biometric locks does not exceed 1 % in comparison with usual mechanical locks, but it is just the beginning. Experts consider, what these are the “biometrics” that are to become the interior future. However, now process is broken for two banal reasons: the high price and natural human mistrust to all new.
However, as practice shows, both high price and unstable demand are surmountable. In due time mobile phones, only having appeared in the market, cost very dearly, but already some years later, manufacturers, having understood, that so their business will not go, have flooded the market with qualitative and accessible at the price of models. So, depreciation of biometric devices is just a matter of time. As if to the second item, the statistics speaks the following: loyalty of people to biometric locks is highest in those countries where biometrics starts to be applied actively in different areas. Germany, which first of the EU countries passes to biometric passports and where on this background sales of “biolocks” recently have strongly increased, is ahead all planet.
Show your fingers
Papillary pattern on small pillows of fingers of hands is unique for each person. Action of all biometric locks is based on this principle of uniqueness. The lock “learns” the owner: put your finger to a special sensor control - to the device visually perceiving a unique ornament from grooves - and the door opens.
Besides the ability to learn the owner on a hand, biometric locking devices possess all characteristics of usual mechanical locks, including anti-cracking and privacy. Biometric lock has one more essential advantage before the mechanical lock- convenience. If you have established the biometric lock at home, at you don????????t have to carry keys or a magnetic card.
For the sake of justice it is necessary to notice, that some manufacturers till now prefer to duplicate the mechanism of recognition by a mechanical key or the code identifier. But, in opinion of some market experts, it is done, more likely, not for secure, but in the marketing purposes. The biometric device is difficult enough for putting out of action, but it still causes mistrust. “And what if the techniques will not work? What if something will suddenly close, and electronics will hang, will fail?”- These are the questions of person, dared to equip the house with biometric lock. In such cases usual spare keys easily dispel doubts in unreliability of electronics.
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