​ Micromax, Intex, Lava may be launching phones that will help authentication of Aadhaar

If things go all planned, you can get your Aadhaar authenticated through phones. According to reports, Micromax, Intex, Lava and Reliance Retail's Lyf will soon be coming with Aadhaar-ready phones. The phone makers have initiated discussions with Delta ID Inc for the same. However, Apple and Google aren’t much interested in this as they believe; making phones Aadhaar ready might be a threat to personal privacy. The iris-reading technology would let users authenticate their biometrics just by looking at phone having a special IRIS camera and LeD. Delta ID is a specialized maker of ActiveIRIS technology and have passed STQC performance test for Aadhaar authentication.

"We are having discussions with Reliance, Intex, Lava and Micromax. We believe Chinese brands like Gionee, Vivo and Oppo would also be interested in such an IRiS-based software for Aadhaar-based authentication," Salil Prabhakar, chief executive of Delta ID told the Economic Times.

"There is huge interest across the board for it. With Aadhaar enrolment in India crossing 105 crore, the potential is immense."

The technology would enable a user to authenticate his Aadhaar details by looking at a phone having a special IRIS camera and LeD.
"ActiveIRIS is a powerful biometric identifier and this can be a game-changing feature in phones helping establish the identity of a person. At Intex, we are in talks with UIDAI and are evaluating the same," Intex Director Keshav Bansal told the financial daily.

There are a few other companies which can assemble and market iris scanners in India, which includes US-based IriTech, and Gujarat-based Biomatiques Identification Solutions.

"We are working with InFocus on a smartphone platform and will be launching it soon," Prabhu Sridharan, the executive vice-president at IriTech, told ET.