Development of a biometrically-controlled door system (using iris), with power backup

ABSTRACT This paper presents a design and implementation of a biometrically-controlled door system using iris recognition with power backup(case: Nigeria with epileptic power supply) where user's life property will serve as the key to granting access to a place or resource . Today, door system with handles is sub-standard due to its instability to provide the expected security and is susceptible to breakages and deliberate compromises of human operators(due to corruption). Black iris data sets were used to simulate the iris recognition algorithms employed on the fabricated door prototype. The system was tested with a number of pre-enrolled templates and some fresh, incoming subjects. The door only unlocked for pre-enrolled subjects while for the latter, access denial was the case. The door system developed thus, answered only to iris signature