Biometric Authentication System for Industrial Applications using Iris Recognition

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the limitations of the most popular biometric authentication systems. It is thus necessary to develop other biometric technologies to ensure that they there are alternatives when some solutions are no longer viable. This paper presented a stand-alone biometric authentication system for computers used in industrial applications. The accuracy metric used to assess the system was the equal error rate (EER) and this was used to calculate an overall system accuracy of 88.94%. The stand-alone device had limited processing power and this resulted in an overall authentication time of 3.966s. In general the system had an acceptable accuracy and some security measures were put into place to bolster the overall system security.