Bio-key International has expanded its biometric identity offerings to include support for Windows Terminal Services Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Citrix ICA Client platforms and for Wyse CE terminals.
The company said that it has created a single virtual channel between applications running on servers and thin client environments including Citrix and Terminal Server/RDP platforms and thin client based hardware like Wyse CE terminals.
Bud Yanak, VP of marketing at Bio-key International, said: Bio-key ID solutions provide application developers, solution providers and system integrators the tools to easily integrate biometric identification, providing the 100 million plus users who access applications and data on these platforms the ability to quickly and conveniently establish their identity.”
The company said that the single virtual connection enables application providers to build biometric user identity authentication into their applications that are accessed by the thin clients.
According to Bio-Key, the new application automatically detects the virtual platform and also authenticates the users through their fingerprint with any of the 40 fingerprint sensors BIO-key supports.
Mr Yanak, added: “We deliver the tools to implement fingerprint biometric identification into the broadest range of platforms including Windows Terminal Services and Citrix ICA Client platforms. And our software offers the ultimate in flexibility with our ability to interface with every major fingerprint reader manufacturer.
