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Chain goes for fingerprints

Busy Bees, the UK's largest nursery chain, is installing a 'fingerprint' entry system at all its nurseries. The nursery group has signed a 500,000 deal with UK Biometrics to install the technology across its 113 settings.

It costs around 4,000 to install the system, and Busy Bees hasbeen testing it at 14 nurseries in the past year.

Once a user's fingerprints are registered, the sensor pad scans 27'minutiae' - key points on the fingerprint unique to the individual -and matches them up.

Busy Bees said the data is only held by the nursery and it is impossibleto recreate an individual fingerprint or any part of it from the datastored.

Marg Randles, operations director for Busy Bees, told Nursery World thatthe chain's existing security systems needed to be replaced. Previously,Busy Bees used a variety of entry systems, including swipe cards andkeypad systems into which parents entered a code.

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