The Japanese company Fujitsu has announced a new laptop named as CELSIUS H730. This new laptop is provided with a contactless palm-based vein authentication system.
The new laptop PC comes pre-installed with the latest Windows 8.1 OS, and it will be made available from mid-December.
The CELSIUS H730 comes standard-equipped with a fingerprint authentication sensor, security chip and smart card slot. The PC comes with a custom-made fingerprint sensor and can be customized to have a built-in compact palm vein authentication sensor instead. By leveraging Fujitsu’s proprietary high-speed imaging technology and authentication algorithms, this compact palm vein authentication sensor makes it possible to accurately perform personal authentication by simply holding the palm of one’s hand over the device, without having physical contact.
In recent years, biometric authentication, which can accurately identify individuals based on their biological characteristics, has grown in popularity as a means of personal identification. Of all the existing biometric approaches, vein authentication, which reads the invisible pattern of veins in the palm or finger, offers the benefits of being both highly accurate and resistant to misconduct such as forgery and impersonation.
Within the field of vein authentication, Fujitsu developed the world’s first contact-free palm vein authentication technology in 2003, and began selling palm vein authentication equipment based on this technology in 2004 (new products were introduced in 2006 under the brand name “PalmSecure”). The technology has been highly praised for its ease-of-use and the confidence it gives users for its robust security. It has been widely adopted both inside and outside Japan as a means of personal identification at financial institutions, and as a computer login and room entrance control method at corporations.
Compared to finger veins, palm veins are more numerous and create complex patterns, resulting in a higher volume of data. Consequently, the system’s recognition accuracy is extremely high, with a false-negatives rate of 0.01% (a single retry) and a false-positives rate of 0.00008%. Furthermore, the fact that the system uses an individual’s thicker veins allows for stable operations over time. Lastly, the system is contact-free, helping to reduce any existing psychological burdens placed on users.
Besides the new authentication method, the Celsius H730 features a 15-inch display, one of the latest generation Intel Core i7 vPro chips clocked up to 3.8 GHz, up to 32 GB of memory, a choice of NVIDIA Quadro video cards and either an SSD or a hybrid drive.
The mobile workstation includes three USB 3.0 port, and a spill-resistant keyboard. The storage is protected from drops by something called the ShockSensor, and the modular bay presents an option to install a second hard drive or a second battery.
Price of Celsius H730 is set as 333,800 JPY (~ 3258 USD)
