Office Security

Security, as we’ve suggested before, can mean many things, and different measures bring a feeling of security to different people. But the core of security is controlling access – to oneself (and by extension family or coworkers); to personal information; to portable property, or a physical location, or even, as in the case of stalkers, to proximity.

Monitoring is a fundamental component of every method of access control. You have to know who’s there to determine whether or not to allow access. Peepholes in apartment doors, doormen or intercom systems, corporate security guards at gated facilities, and video cameras all serve the same purpose: monitoring to determine identity to permit or deny access.

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Here’s Looking At You!

We wrote in January about various biometric scanning systems and fingerprint scanners. At the time we also mentioned retina scanners as one of the systems with potential for wider use in the future.

But it seems that interest in developing retina scanners for the retail market is diminishing. There are two reasons for this: invasiveness and inefficiency.

Retina scanners work by shooting laser light at your eyeball to scan the blood vessels embedded deep within. The veins make a pattern that is as unique to each person as a fingerprint, so they’re hard, if not impossible, to duplicate. Once the authorized person has had his or her eyeballs scanned into the system, retina scanners give very few false negative readings (rejecting an approved user) or false positives (admitting an unapproved one).

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