Indian Railways coaches to get 175K facial recognition cameras
India has monumental biometric surveillance plans for its equally monumental railway system. The government has posted a tender to make…
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London, Montreal subways trial surveillance for public nuisance, suicide prevention
Public safety initiatives are going underground, as subway systems in the UK and Canada experiment with computer vision camera systems,…
Moscow, Dubai ramp up biometric payments in public transportation
A new touchless biometric fare payment service is set to be trialed by the Moscow Metro with new equipment for…
Facial recognition deployed for subway payments in Japan, Kazakhstan and Russia
More cities are experimenting with face biometrics in public transportation but the rollouts are proceeding at very different paces. The…
EU’s largest public transport security project with Herta biometrics nears final stage
Europe has a plan to prevent terrorist attacks on public transportation with video analytics algorithms, possibly but not necessarily including…
Corsight’s real-time biometric surveillance in Bogotá public transit results in six arrests
In Bogotá, U.S. and UK-headquartered facial recognition provider Corsight has partnered with metropolitan police to complete a 30-day proof of…
Biometric payments for public transit coming to Dubai, Moscow system marks 80M trips
As biometric payments makes its way into Dubai’s commuter operations, Moscow passengers have made over 80 million trips using the…
Moscow Metro introduces new biometric payment method
The Moscow Metro is testing a new biometric payment method. Passengers can link their biometrics to the Moscow Resident Social…
Mumbai railways installing 1000s of facial recognition cameras
Indian Railways is planning to install thousands of CCTV cameras equipped with facial recognition across greater Mumbai in an effort…
Yoti partners on public transport digital ID for Northern Ireland students
Translink, Northern Ireland’s main public transportation provider, announced that it has partnered with the age verification provider Yoti to introduce…
