At last month’s IFSEC International 2016 event in London, UK biometric face recognition system specialist, Aurora, unveiled a claimed ‘world-first’ in access control technology – a system that allows registered users to open doors simply by looking at a sensor, with no need for additional verification such as tokens, cards, or PINs.
The system integrates Aurora’s AI-powered FaceSentinel facial recognition product with Fastlane gates and Door Detective ‘antitailgating’ products – the latter restrict the number of people going through a security point simultaneously – from IDL.
Aurora head of Sales and Marketing, Gary James, said: “Normally, contact-type biometrics such as fingerprint scanning start to introduce delays into the throughput, but here users can glide through gates without the delays associated with presenting cards or stopping to comply with finger or hand scanners.” FaceSentinel is reportedly the world’s first biometric access control authentication product powered by Deep Learning. The system uses Artificial Intelligence and infrared light to achieve ‘unparalleled facial recognition speed, accuracy, and reliability’.
Aurora’s facial recognition technology is already used throughout Heathrow Airport for boarding pass verification.