What Part of the Palm Does a Palm Vein Scanner Actually Capture?

August 12, 2025
8 min read

Palm vein technology is quickly rising as the most trusted form of biometric identification. It’s contactless, hygienic, and more secure than traditional fingerprint or facial recognition.

But have you ever wondered — which part of your palm does a biometric palm scanner actually read?
And does an injury affect its ability to verify?

Let’s break it down.


📍 The Core Zone: Your Central Palm Area

At BioWavePass, our palm recognition algorithms don’t require scanning the entire hand.
We focus on the central region of the palm, where vascular patterns are dense, consistent, and stable.

By using five anchor coordinates (20 → 16 → 12 → 8 → 0), the system confirms palm presence and positioning — ensuring it detects a live human hand and not a spoof object.

Even if the user has cuts, scars, or finger injuries, as long as the palm center is intact, recognition remains highly reliable.


🧠 RGB + IR Dual Sensing = High Fidelity Biometrics

Unlike single-mode vein scanners that rely on only infrared, BioWavePass devices combine:

  • 🌈 RGB Imaging — capturing palmprint textures from the skin’s surface
  • 🌌 IR/NIR Imaging — analyzing vein networks beneath the skin layer

This dual-capture strategy means two biometric factors are verified independently, offering both higher accuracy and advanced liveness detection.


🔐 Real-World Accuracy Metrics

Our system’s recognition engine is trained on large-scale data sets, tested with millions of identities. Here’s what we achieve:

Mode FRR @ FAR = 1e-6
RGB (Palmprint) ✅ ~1.00%
IR (Vein Map) ✅ ~1.52%

Combined mode accuracy:

For an error to occur, both modes must fail at the same time:
1 in 100,000 (RGB) × 1 in 1,000,000 (IR) = 1 in 100,000,000,000

That’s a 1 in 100 billion false match rate — ideal for banking, healthcare, or citizen ID systems.


💡 Why Focused Palm Center Scanning Works Best

  • 🖐 Contactless & Sanitary — no touch, no contamination
  • 🧬 Resilient to Skin Damage — works even with aging or injured hands
  • 🔐 Spoof-Resistant — dual-mode liveness detection
  • 🧩 SDK Ready — easy to integrate into new or existing systems

🔧 Trusted for These Applications

  • 💳 Palm-Pay Authentication in Retail & Transit
  • 🏛️ eKYC + Financial ID Verification
  • 🏥 Patient Identity Validation in Healthcare
  • 🧾 Government Services: National ID, Subsidy Distribution

🧪 Try It Remotely

We offer:

  • ✅ Remote SDK testing access
  • ✅ Support for private or cloud deployment
  • ✅ Full technical docs and integration support

📩 Email: [email protected]
📱 WhatsApp: +86 198 6084 3404

Let’s build biometric ID systems that are safe, accurate — and future-ready.


🔖 Tags

#PalmVein #BioWavePass #PalmScanner #ContactlessBiometrics #RGBIR #LivenessDetection #AIbiometrics #SecureIdentity #Fintech #HealthcareTech

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