Toronto-based Bionym Company finally gave a demo of their Nymi ECG authentication and identification wristband during the We Are Wearable convention last Monday in Toronto. They also talked about the details of their product and the ongoing production of it.
Nymi has many amazing features which it can measure the heartbeat of its users and uses the heartbeat to confirm the user’s identity. It can perform several handshake operations that will make you login easier to different software. It has customizable settings and manipulated connected devices.
How Nymi will Know Who You Are?
First, you need to go through a sort of enrollment process. It is the part where you biometric data is being recorded and tie to your identity so you can use it for the other apps online.
Next, touch the top to allow capture of your ECG (electrocardiogram) that checks the electrical activity of your heart. The metal pad on the underside of your wristband provides a second point of contact. Remember that it takes about two minutes to gather enough data needed for the completion of your profile.
Once you are registered, begin your day with the two points of contact again just to authenticate it. It will take a couple of seconds to remember your profile.
This product uses sensors on the band to know it remains on your wrist and has not been removed, stolen or lost. Meaning it uses the initial handshake and its tamper detection as evidence that it’s still you each time you use it.
How About Nymi’s Accuracy?
Concerning its accuracy in determining one person concisely without any duplication, it is quite close to fingerprint authentication but a lot better than the facial detection. It is carefully designed to become more hack-resistant than the ordinary password.
Yevgeniy Vahlis, Bionym Chief Cryptologist said that the main reason why Heartbleed became a big issue that it stole people’s identities but Nymi is a device that can avoid that. Nymi is a self-contained device that runs only in Bionym’s own code.
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