Simplifying Life.

About

NEXT Biometrics was founded on the belief that strong authentication and identification can be secure, seamless and cost effective for governments and businesses with Active Thermal® technology. More than 25 years later, NEXT has retained its Norwegian heritage and grown to serve customers globally.

Today, our solutions are used by billions of users each year across 10+ national ID and local programs, 150.000+ POS terminals, 25+ laptop and tablet models from tier-1 OEMs, and physical and logical access control implementations. Through state-of-the-art technology, deep industry expertise and close collaboration with partners for seamless integration, Active Thermal® biometrics can make life simpler and safer for everyone.

Our journey

NEXT Biometrics was established with the vision to provide the best biometric technology that protects data, information and people in a digital society. We went to the market with our biometric fingerprint technology and one of our first major customers was Dell Computers.

We have offices all around the world: Norway (HQ), Sweden, US, India, Japan, Taiwan and China. We are a publicly traded company on the Oslo Stock exchange.

Our DNA

Scandinavian roots, global reach 
Trust in Scandinavian innovation and quality. Our expert teams in seven locations globally are on the ground to help make your project a success.

Patented, proven, secure technology
Our technology is designed to meet the most stringent security requirements and delivering leading authentication speed and low energy consumption.

Simplifying integration through collaboration
We work with you to simplify and streamline the integration process, optimizing performance and reducing time to market.

Vision

To enable everyone, everywhere to simply and safely authenticate and identify in the digital society.

Mission

To create high-performance biometric technologies that give people secure and convenient access to systems, information and services. Through close collaboration with our partners, we simplify integration and adoption to realize our vision.