ABSTRACT
The steady growth in electronic transactions has promoted the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) thereby
making it the main transaction channel for carrying out financial transactions. However, this has also increased
the amount of fraudulent activities carried out on Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) thereby calling for
efficient security mechanisms and increasing the demand for fast and accurate user identification and
authentication in ATMs. This research analyses, designs and proposes a biometric authentication prototype for
integrating fingerprint security with ATMs as an added layer of security. A fingerprint biometric technique was
fused with personal identification numbers (PIN's) for authentication to ameliorate the security level. The
prototype was simulated using a fingerprint scanner and Java Platform Enterprise Edition was used to develop
an ATM application which was used to synchronize with a fingerprint scanner thereby providing a biometric
authentication scheme for carrying out transactions on an ATM.
Keywords: - ATM, Database Modeling, Fingerprint Authentication, Security Analysis, Software Testing