trinamiX GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE and member of the Qualcomm Platform Solutions Ecosystem Program, introduces a near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy module for smartphone integration as well as an all-in-one, easy-to-integrate face authentication solution in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies.

trinamiX Face Authentication is powered by the Qualcomm Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and trinamiX unique algorithms to raise the protection of users’ personal data. In the future, trinamiX Consumer Spectroscopy could unlock novel health and fitness applications.

In the past few years, Qualcomm Technologies and trinamiX have been joining forces to accelerate the development of trinamiX face authentication. Optimized for use on Snapdragon mobile platforms, trinamiX got their next-generation solution off the ground and just recently had it certified in accordance with highest biometric security requirements.

Qualcomm Technologies and the German sensing pioneer are now extending their ongoing collaboration with trinamiX’s introduction of a full hardware/software authentication solution as well as a reference design of an NIR spectroscopy solution for smartphones.

trinamiX Face Authentication combines regular 2D face detection and recognition with trinamiX’s unique liveness check based on skin detection. By running all software components in the Qualcomm TEE, trinamiX is further raising the protection of users’ personal data on devices powered by Snapdragon.

As stated by Stefan Metz, Head of Smartphone Business Asia at trinamiX, the achievement is not only to make today’s authentication methods more secure but to also provide the convenience of a touchless solution.

“During the development of our solution, we have seen and unveiled so many crucial security gaps in available biometric solutions,” said Metz.

The solution fulfills the highest biometric security requirements defined by the International Internet Finance Authentication Alliance (IIFAA), the FIDO Alliance and Android (Google). It has thus been approved for Android integration and for use in digital payment processes with particularly high security demands. Its potential is based on the underlying patent-protected algorithms that verify a person’s liveness by checking for human skin.

The full reference design will be available to manufacturers from November 2022.