Samsung India, on Wednesday announced the launch of Galaxy Tab Iris featuring iris-recognition technology that is ready for Aadhar authentication through an integrated and highly secure biometric device. The Galaxy Tab Iris will provide cashless and paperless services in various applications such as banking, eGovernance services such as passport, taxation, healthcare and education.

 

The easy-to-use biometric technology, currently incorporated in the Galaxy Tab Iris will help India spread its Digital India vision of providing technology so that every citizen of the country can have access to financial inclusion benefits. The solution will support government benefit programs and enable banks and financial institutions to streamline the process of an individual’s authentication, regardless of language and literacy barriers.

 

The device is Aadhar-compliant and STQC-certified. Galaxy Tab Iris is yet another Make for India innovation from Samsung. Embedded in a secure device, the advanced iris-recognition technology will provide an integrated solution that will help to solve the hassles of using separate devices for biometric identification.

 

“We’re excited to offer biometric-based services to the billion plus people enrolled in Aadhar. Our India R&D team has made significant investments in biometric technology research and we built this product leveraging our knowledge in hardware design, biometrics and security for a high speed scan, greater accuracy and high reliability,” said Dr. Aloknath De, Corporate Vice President & CTO, Samsung India R&D.

 

“Along with the device, we are providing an Identity SDK for application developers to build financial inclusion, payments and authentication solutions. This will encourage our start-up ecosystem to rapidly build relevant apps and services. We strongly believe this overall offering will in turn strengthen government programs such as Jan-Dhan Yojana and E-Citizen services under the Digital India initiative,” added Dr. Aloknath De..

 

“This is another example of Samsung’s pursuit for meaningful innovations. We see great potential for the iris-technology solution to be used as a means of directly facilitating greater inclusion in the Digital India programme. The biometric authentication can also act as an enabler in facilitating integration of financial services with the ‘Aadhar’ initiative. The Galaxy Tab Iris addresses consumer pain points across platforms such as banking, finance, education and various citizen services by bringing enhanced usability, versatility and reliability all through one device,” said Sukesh Jain, Vice President, Samsung India Electronics.

 

Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris is a 3G enabled tablet and runs Android Lollipop OS. It sports a 7 inch WSVGA display with 1024 x 600 pixels resolution. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor with 1.5GB RAM. It sports a 5 megapixel rear autofocus camera and comes with 8GB inbuilt storage that is further expandable up to 200GB via microSD card. 

 

For connectivity, Galaxy Tab Iris includes - Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.1, Micro-USB and it has a SIM card slot. It is power packed by a 3600 mAh battery. The device measures 193.4x116.4x9.7mm and weighs 327 grams and Supports 14 local languages.