Mobile operating system developer Indus OS has partnered with US-based Delta ID, a company which provides iris recognition technology, to roll out iris-based Aadhaar authentication on smartphones. The authentication feature will also be available in the 12 Indian languages supported by Indus OS. The new update with Aadhaar authentication feature will be available on Indus OS by the end of this quarter. As of now, Indus OS comes integrated on 6 domestic smartphone brands like Micromax, Intex, Karbonn, Celkon and Swipe. A joint statement from both companies said that the feature will be open for government services such as UPI, Digilocker and Aadhaar Pay and for other mobile wallets. But the company hasn’t mentioned private applications that will support Delta ID’s iris authentication feature. MediaNama has written to the company for more details and will update the story once they respond. Rakesh Deshmukh, CEO of Indus OS told MediaNama that the company's "existing and future smartphone brand partners can explore" the option of integrating iris-based Aadhaar authentication. But he didn't clarify whether existing partners--Micromax, Intex, Karbonn, Celkon, Swipe--are already signed up. He also did not mention the names of private apps that will support the feature but added that the company is yet to finalize "OS layer for the technology" which it expects to release by this quarter. Note that last year, Delta ID received approval from UIDAI, the Aadhaar issuing authority, for providing biometric authentication services. A Mint report from August 2016 points out that Delta ID was working with…
