Fingerprint matching has been successfully used by law enforcement for more than a century. The technology is now finding lot of other applications such as identity management and access control. In this paper, an automated fingerprint recognition system and identification of key challenges are described along with the research opportunities. The description is like a product design in this report implementing RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) under the domain of embedded system. Fingerprint recognition is a widely popular but a complex pattern recognition problem.