ODI Security, a biometric security company, has announced its successful development of prototype mobile lock solutions that incorporate Servocell’s AL2 Active Latch with its own fingerprint recognition.

Keys have always been a vulnerable point for traditional security systems based on locks.  Fingerprints are unique, giving a much greater degree of security, convenience and low cost.  The economic realities of locks using electricity have, to date, been a drawback for users, with the added complications of battery life requiring regular attention, maintenance and cost. 
Servocell’s Active Latch is a very low-power solution, creating a viable battery life for small, mobile locks as well as immovable locks.  Suitable for a very wide range of products from bicycle locks to commercial and domestic cabinets, the prototypes combine ODI Security’s embedded fingerprint modules with the AL2, Servocell’s low-power piezoelectric locking module. 
The prototypes were recently shown at the ASIS show in USA, and based on feedback at the exhibition, ODI Security will be developing modules specifically for padlocks, bicycle locks, trigger locks, locking systems for both gun and personal safes, cabinet locks for HazMat and other industry security as well as the consumer market for medical, liquor and additional cabinets around the house and in the office. 
ODI Security will also be developing cabinet locks for filing cabinets and other office furniture that can retrofit into the traditional lockset mounting features.  With partners such as Fujitsu selling ODI Security components in products worldwide, ODI Security expects consumer products to be directly available within the next six to nine months.