Kinishi will launch a ‘remotely managed’ fingerprint identication solution for vehicles.

The technology is an optional extension to its vehicle tracking and fleet management solution FleetSure.

Not all remote monitoring solutions provide the facility to identify a driver and those that do will either allocate a PIN code or issue the driver with a physical tag.

“PIN codes and tags are not an optimum method of identifying drivers,” says Kinishi CTO Alex Goldstone.

“Our FleetSure offering supports PIN codes and RFID/iButton tags where appropriate. However , Kinishi is the only vendor providing true driver accountability and remotely managed vehicle security using biometric (fingerprint) identification which is fast, reliable and has none of the down-sides of a PIN code or tag.

Drivers do not need to remember PINs and they are accountable for their actions because people cannot exchange or steal fingers like they can a code or tag.”