Fujitsu develops world’s first tablet with built-in palm vein authentication sensor

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Fujitsu said Friday it has commenced work on a project, ordered by Fukuoka Financial Group, to provide 2,000 tablets with built-in palm vein authentication sensors, and to construct a virtual-desktop platform. The platform will enable staff to securely access their bank’s internal system from off-site locations.

Starting from April, the tablets are scheduled to be deployed and used by employees working off-site for the banks that are part of the Fukuoka Financial Group, namely, The Bank of Fukuoka, Kumamoto Bank, and Shinwa Bank.

In a highly secure environment, the system connects to the internal systems of each of the three banks in the Fukuoka Financial Group. This enables bank staff working off-site to use their tablets to access their bank’s internal systems. This allows them to refer to a customer’s transaction history, to look up the current status of financial products, and to provide customers with proposals best suited to them.

Field staff will be able to use these devices as ordinary business computers, at any time and any place, to handle routine business processes. This will cut down on time spent going to and from customer premises and their own business offices, allowing them to spend more time to strengthen business relationships with customers.

Furthermore, from Fujitsu’s operations center, the Fukuoka Financial Group is using LCM Services, which will give it 24×7 operations management of the virtual-desktop platform that Fujitsu is building. This will work to cut down on the bank’s operations and maintenance workload.

The tablet is the high-spec FUJITSU Tablet ARROWS Tab Q704/H, customized to integrate Fujitsu’s own palm-vein authentication sensor. It is the first tablet in the world embedded with this sensor and enables high-accuracy palm vein authentication which prevents unauthorized access.