Nymi, Tracks Your Heartbeat for Authenticating Purpose

The Toronto based hardware company Bionym, which is trying to replace all the locks and Keys, password, and all traditional method of authentication. The Nymi is a security device, too because you never have to remember your passwords and may write it down somewhere that poses threat to secure identity. Bionym has developed Nymi, a ECG authentication and identification wristband. It tracks the user’s heart beat and uses that to verify and authenticate their identity and defined several handshake gestures to make it easy to login to software, customize settings and manipulate devices. The device recognized your identity through numerous methods, which also includes tracking your biometric data and attaches that to your identity and also make them as passwords for almost all of your services such as login to you PC, Making payments, Open car doors and several other applications.

TechCrunch “That produces a biometric template that ties the Nymi to you so that it and the applications it works with know it’s you. Once registered, at the beginning of the day you touch it with two points of contact again to authenticate it, which takes a couple of seconds to recall your profile. It then uses sensors on the band to know it’s still on your wrist and hasn’t been removed (cut off, stolen or lost), meaning it’s not actually verifying with your ECG in each usage throughout the day, but using that initial handshake and its tamper detection as proof it’s still you each time you use it.”

It allows you to touch the top of the device to capture you ECG, and inside of the metal band allows you to use the second point of contact regarding security perspective. It takes about two minutes to complete your full profile in first step with gathering all the data.