Design of Remote Biometrics Authentication System to Access Public Services from Remote Area

Abstract

Biometrics is already popularly used on various applications for authentication, especially authentication using smartphone. Various smartphone applications are developed to authenticating the users using biometrics modality, such as face, fingerprint and even iris. The combination between biometrics and smartphone enable the users to be authenticated and able to access the information and services. We proposed a remote biometric authentication, a system to access the public services using smartphone and biometrics for authentication. This system is intended to be connected to a Biometric Identity Service which host the enrolled biometric data. The result of authentication will be subsequently passed to the third party / public service providers to ensure that the person is identified correctly and has the right to access the public service. Fingerprint is chosen as biometrics trait, and the experimental results shows that the system is able to authenticated the user remotely. The finger of the resident is scanned by a fingerprint sensor connected to the smartphone, and it is sent to a server in the third party for authentication. The authentication result is returned back to the client. If it is success, the resident is allowed to access the public service. The system was evaluated using 22 persons and the result was promising.