The Design of Fingerprint Biometric Authentication on Smart Card for PULAPOT Main Entrance System

Reliable personal authentication and identification is necessary due to the necessity of security and access restriction. The main task is to verify the person is who they claim to be. Biometrics personal authentication utilizing fingerprints have been studied and applied in numerous applications. Everyone is known to possess a unique fingerprint and it does not change throughout his lifetime. Therefore fingerprint matching is considered one of the most reliable techniques of people identification. Smart card is also being widely adopted in many applications and refers as an essential platform to hold biometrics information. This paper presents a fingerprint verification that can be embedded in a smart card. The smart card plays a data storage for storing the cardholder's fingerprint data. The card holder is required to scan his/her fingerprint on a sensor. The scanned fingerprint image is then sent to the cardfor matching.