Google has plans to do away with passwords for Android by the end of 2016 with Project Abacus, replacing them with a Trust Score system to sign in.

This odd approach to logging in employs various aspects such as typing speed and pattern, location, voice patterns and anything else along those lines to determine the user's identity.

For those who don't know, Project Abacus was unveiled at the 2015 I/O conference, and at this year's event, Google Advanced Technology and Project group head honcho Daniel Kaufman provided an update about it.

Assuming that everything pans out, the system could soon take the place of two-factor authentication, and to explain what the current secure login standard is, it requires something that the user knows and something else that they own — usually a username and a password coupled with a PIN that's typically sent via text or email.

Meanwhile, in the case of Project Abacus, it gathers up data regarding the user to come up with the Trust Score. To put it simply, the score is high when the device deems the user to be who they really are based on the aforementioned factors. Also, when it's too low, the apps will go back to password-based authentication.

"We have a phone, and these phones have all these sensors in them. Why couldn't it just know who I was so I don't need a password? I should just be able to work," Kaufman said during the presentation, alluding to the advantages of the Trust Score system over passwords.

It's also worth mentioning that the required Trust Score to successfully sign in depends on the app itself. For instance, a banking app may demand a higher score compared with a mobile game.

Some users may understandably be reluctant in using the system, as it does involve giving up a certain amount of privacy to Google because of how it collects and stores their data. Yielding a degree of security for convenience isn't exactly the most appealing idea, but nonetheless, Project Abacus does have the potential to open more doors for the future of online safety.

Kaufman said that "several very large financial institutions" will start testing the system out sometime in June, so it's not going to be long to find out whether or not this is an acceptable approach to logging in.