Biometric identification and/or verification systems and hardware devices for use in time and attendance and labour monitoring, physical access control to industrial, commercial and residential property, security systems, safes, vehicle access and immobilisation and hardware secure wireless transactions involving remote control hardware devices, eftpos and e commerce transactions

The fingerwatch is a normal wristwatch that displays the real time of the day and also has a visible fingerprint sensor next the time display area; the sensor is internally (inside the wristwatch container) connected to a embedded microsystem that control the sensor, the real time and wirelessly transmit/receive encrypted information to/from local organization server; the fingerprint templates generated at enrollment phase by various biometric service providers are stored on the device local nonvolatile memory together with corresponding transactions; in the nonvolatile memory resides all the software that implements the functionality as described above