Apple seems to be up fast in the new security frontier with its new patent of cameras that recognise people’s bodyprint. This development could reinvent the way authentication of the user and protection of a device are done.

What is bodyprint technology?

It’s like an advanced fingerprint scanner, so that’s how big it is.

Instead of just using the fingerprint scanners, it matches your whole body features for security purposes.

The technology includes shape, contour, and motion recognition for users’ identification.

How It Works

Think about coming home, the door opens, and the camera identifies your body print—how your body is shaped and moves.

It allows only authenticated users to access the website or application.

If an unauthorised body part is identified, it alarms the activity, enhancing security as a result.

Potential Applications

Smart Homes: Increase the safety features using bodyprint identification in smart locks and supplementary cameras.

Workplaces: To open locked doors in offices, most especially in laboratories.

Healthcare: Support the privacy of patient information and restrict appropriate data in health fields.

Banking: Make it, become an additional security measure to the ATI and the vaults.

Privacy Concerns

Despite the benefits, this innovation raises questions:

What measures will be taken to secure the bodyprint data; how will it be managed?

What if these could be misused when security measures were compromised?

As Apple prides itself on maintaining user privacy, the company is likely to address these issues, but the controversy over data usage and protection may well increase.

What’s Next?

Apple has not stated when this technology will be available for the market; however, the patent shows its intention to be at the forefront in the provision of security technology. Whether this becomes a standard feature in smart devices is yet to be seen.

For now, it is Apple who established the “bodyprint” patent, which has opened the world to yet another form of authentication.

Is it possible for this type of technology to metamorphose into the direction of standardisation gradually? Time will tell.