The Parco_ya shopping center in Tokyo’s Ueno district is using 90 cameras and facial recognition technology from AI startup Abeja…
Commercial Applications
The commercial application of biometrics refers to biometric systems in retail and customer-facing settings. This includes point-of-sale and payments, access control and identification. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition with retail-based systems.
Tuple applies AI face recognition technology to unmanned stores
Tuple Technologies has successfully applied its AI-based facial recognition technology to unmanned stores, allowing many consumers to simultaneously enter and…
Supermarket chain iFresh to distribute biometric automated retail technology in the Americas
Leading Asian-American supermarket chain iFresh has agreed to become the exclusive distributor of biometric retail payments and unmanned smart retail…
KLM CEO says facial recognition and AI next steps in traveler convenience
The CEO of Dutch airline KLM, Pieter Elbers, says that using artificial intelligence and facial recognition are among the next…
DeepCam AI solution for retail loss prevention available as a subscription service
The DeepCam AI platform is now available as a subscription service. DeepCam is a plug-and-play system for retail loss prevention…
Autonomous driving transit bus launches with palm recognition and voice technology
Chinese AI company DeepBlue Technology has launched an autonomous driving bus called the “Smart Panda Bus,” which the company says…
Insurance companies argue no obligation to defend clients in biometric privacy suits
Two insurance companies have told a California federal court that their coverage of software company Omnicell Inc. does not cover…
FaceFirst facial recognition coming to thousands of U.S. retail locations
Facial recognition systems using software from FaceFirst have been deployed to “hundreds of [retail] locations, growing to thousands very soon,”…
EyeLock iris recognition tech integrated into vending machine solution
EyeLock announced today it has integrated its embedded iris recognition technology into ViaTouch Media’s auto-retail solution. According to the announcement,…
Lotte Card and Fujitsu launch biometric self-registration for payment system
Lotte Card and Fujitsu recently debuted the world’s first “HandPay” self-registration system that allows consumers to register their biometrics without…
