SXPS Facial Recognition vs Upek Protector Suite fingerprint reader

So I had the Upek fingerprint reader on my old M1530 and loved it but the new SXPS 1640 I have only came with the Facial Recognition and it blows. I was thinking about getting a upek usb fingerprint reader and buying the PS software, but I was wondering if it will run fine on my system and whether or not it would be worth it?

 

I completely agree with the Facial Recognition software! I too upgraded from an XPS1530 and it had the UPEK fingerprint reader... I loved it and as a result became dependent on it.

I was disappointed when I upgraded to my XPS1647 to learn that the finger print reader was gone.

Facial Recognition sounds cool, but the finger print reader is far more practical... I guess I am just going to have to remember my cryptic passwords and type them in!

 

Too bad they didn't have a fingerprint reader on the newer gen systems, it definitely bests the facial recognition. Thing I hate about facial recognition is it doesn't work very well when you're the administrator of a system and login to multiple accounts and in addition have your own account. You gotta be duck down out of view from the camera to stop the facial recognition from logging you into an account you don't want. Not a problem with fingerprint readers ...

 

If there are questions or concerns about the facial recognition software, I would love to help. There are several things that it does that I would hope would be helpful including minimizing how often you need to type those cryptic passwords.

Let me know what your concerns are I'd be happy to work together to address them.

 

is there any way to allow the facial recognition software to work on bank sites, upek did!

 

svrep, know anything about adding a feature that allows multiple users to login to the same account, or to stop facial recognition from automatically logging you in? It would be nice to have a button to click or for it to wait for you to select a username before logging in... this would make it a little nicer to use.

 

If you're referring to the web login feature, then most banking website should work. That's actually how I do my personal banking at home.

Make sure that you're using IE 32 bit specifically (Firefox is coming soon, but isn't here yet) and be sure that the web login feature is enabled. If most of your sites work but you see a specific one that doesn't seem to be supported, please let me know what it is. Some sites, depending on how they're coded, may not work currently and we're always looking for ways to make the software better. Thanks!

 

That's a really great question. This exact functionality is something that we've actually had for years in our "Enterprise" version that we sell to hospitals, banks, etc. In those locations it's quite common for an IT staff person to log into multiple different administrative accounts - and also for multiple IT people to log into a single account. In both situations you don't want faces being learned for the reasons that you mentioned so we provide an "exception list" for biometric access.

In the consumer world this situation is quite a bit less common. Typically the most knowledgeable user or computer owner will have an Administrative account that they both use as their own account AND use for purposes of administering the machine. Other users then just have normal user accounts.

It's always a balancing act to provide extensive features for a variety of situations while still keeping the software easy to understand and simple to use for less experienced people. For this reason we've not implemented the "exception list" in the consumer version. I will happily add it to the list of suggestions, but do not believe that it is currently on the development road map.

Thanks again for the suggestion - we always appreciate feedback.