Biometric Application Programming Interface Consortium

Overview
The Biometric Application Programming Interface Consortium (BioAPI Consortium) is a group of over 90 organizations whose goal is to encourage and promote the growth of biometric technology by developing an industry-wide application programming interface (API) The consortium's BioAPI defines how a software application interacts with a biometric verification device; it is compatible with different operating systems, vendor applications, and types of biometric technologies including voice and facial recognition, iris and retina scans, signature verification, hand and earlobe geometry, and fingerprint analysis.