Japanese credit card company JCB is running a trial of multipurpose visible light palm authentication, in collaboration with Universal Robot and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

The trial will use Universal Robot’s visible light palm authentication, using both palm print and vein patterns – which has the world’s highest level of accuracy with a one in 100 billion false acceptance rate.

The trial will focus on testing technical aspects during the registration and payment flow: capturing customer palm print and vein patterns with a smartphone camera, storing the patterns on a server, performing authentication, and returning the results to the smartphone.

JCB will be studying how to utilise the authentication technology for a range of services, while only requiring the customer to register their palm information in the authentication server once using their own smartphone.

The visible light palm authentication used in this trial combines the palm vein pattern authentication with palm print search of the data base to find the person's information.

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