Chinese home-sharing company to trial facial recognition smart locks for rentals in Chengdu
Xiaozhu, a company providing similar services to Airbnb for the Chinese market, is rolling out smart locks with facial recognition…
Commercial Applications
Biometrics are used in retail and customer-facing settings for point-of-sales services such as payments, access control in systems for purposes such as shoplifting prevention, and identification or characteristic analysis for personalization or customer insights. Access control systems are also increasingly used for automated commercial applications, such as hotel check-ins. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition.
EFF urges appeals court to side with plaintiff interpretation of harm in Facebook biometric privacy suit
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a U.S. appellate court to reject Facebook’s interpretation of the harm criteria of…
Biometrics reach mass auto market as Hyundai to sell SUV with fingerprint tech in China in 2019
Hyundai and Osram Opto Semiconductors have each announced new biometric technologies for the automotive industry, which could enable users to…
Supermarket deployment of biometric tech yields immediate customer loyalty benefits
The KanKan AI Retail system for large-format supermarkets, which uses facial recognition and other technologies to provide customer shopping behavior…
CLEAR provides facial and fingerprint biometrics for faster car rentals from Hertz
CLEAR is providing biometric technology to car rental giant Hertz to speed up the car rental process for customers at…
Twice as many consumers in emerging markets support retail facial recognition for purchase security
Using facial recognition to ensure purchase security is a good idea according to 61 percent of consumers in emerging markets,…
Singapore could soon have more than one thousand biometric vending machines
Singaporean company Le Tach Pte. Is planning to expand the number of its vending machine that support payments with facial…
Grubbrr raises funds to complete integration of AI and facial recognition tech
Fintech solutions provider TouchSuite announced a strategic investment in Grubbrr, a kiosk and AI POS technology platform that enables a…
NEC providing facial recognition for automated check-out in Japan convenience store pilot
Seven-Eleven Japan is planning to open a “cashierless” convenience store leveraging facial recognition technology from NEC for customer self check-out,…
Brazilian telecom plans to register biometrics for full subscriber base in four years
Brazilian telecom company Vivo will register biometrics for its entire subscriber base within four years, a company executive told a…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection