Once enrolled, a passenger will be able to insert a card into a biometric reader and answer a few questions on a touch screen.

Using biometric readers (fingerprint) and access control cards, nationals could proceed through immigration checkpoints at astonishing rates.

A patient who arrives for an appointment types his or her name in a waiting room computer and puts a finger on a biometric reader.

It also includes a biometric reader for security.

But the biometric readers will improve as well to counter that.

Then I stick my hand in a biometric reader, which reads the various parameter from my palm.

All biometric readers work similarly, by comparing the template stored in memory to the scan obtained during the process of identification.

The only exception is the intelligent biometric reader, which does not require any panels and directly controls all door hardware.

In such case a biometric reader first reads the template on the card and then compares it to the finger (hand, eye, etc.) presented by the user.

He pressed his thumb on a small control that looked like anything but a biometric reader, then he tapped a code into an out-of-date keypad.