Multimodal Biometrics for Access Control in an Intelligent Car

This paper presents the use of multimodal biometrics in order to identify or to verify a person that wants to start the engine of a car. First of all, a fingerprint sensor is posted on the car´s door, one on the steering wheel, a camera for iris recognition on the car´s main mirror, and finally a microphone for voice recognition. There are two possibilities: if the person is identified as the car owner or a known user, then he/she can take control over the car; if it´s an intruder, the car can announce the security service or the police using a complex GPRS system.