IDEX Biometrics and TMC collaborate to accelerate biometric smart card adoption

IDEX Biometrics ASA, the leading provider of advanced fingerprint identification and authentication solutions, is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with Tongxin Microelectronics Co., Ltd (“TMC”), a major secure element vendor in China focusing on the smart card industry. TMC and IDEX will work closely to create a compatible biometric smart card solution for end-customer implementation.

TMC provides secure elements, which are crucial components used by payment card integrators. To achieve compatibility between the secure element and biometric sensor, two critical components in a biometric payment card, both companies will integrate IDEX’s sensor with TMC’s secure element for dual-interface solutions. This solution will support both match in the biometric MCU and match in the secure element, thus providing a higher level of security. The integration involves joint creation of native code in the secure element to manage and control IDEX’s sensor in the operating system of the secure element.