Smart Sensors
AuthenTec smart sensors add multiple touch-powered features to millions of PCs, peripherals, phones and other products.  The Company’s broad portfolio of swipe sensors use a patented sub-surface technology to read the live layer of skin beneath the skin’s surface where the fingerprint is first formed.  This allows AuthenTec sensors to read through worn, damaged, calloused or oily skin to ensure that they provide very accurate fingerprint imaging for everyone, every time.

So what makes AuthenTec fingerprint sensors smart?  AuthenTec smart sensors go beyond the security offered by fingerprint authentication to include other touch-based features including personalization, or the ability to associate different functions with different fingers.  For example, a phone or PC user can quickly and securely launch eBay (including user log-in and password) by swiping their index finger, launch Yahoo with their thumb, or speed dial their spouse with a swipe of their ring finger.  AuthenTec smart sensors also now incorporate touch-based navigation features that offer precise cursor control for text editing, 360 degree mouse navigation, and a unique turbo-scroll feature for rapid browsing of long emails, contact lists or websites.  

This enhanced functionality expands the value proposition of AuthenTec products, whether used in a low-cost mobile phone, a smartphone, tablet or notebook PC.  The world’s leading electronics manufacturers have built AuthenTec sensors into more than 100 million products, and continue to introduce innovative smart sensor-enabled every day.