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“The Sentry Live HT also supports facial recognition for access control and additional security.” The Texas-based Sentry Security Solutions has become the latest security specialist to offer temperature screening capabilities. The Sentry Live HT Human Temperature Scanner is intended for schools, grocery stores, hospitals, transit stations, and other public-facing venues with a high volume of foot […]
The Duxbury Fire Department in Duxbury, Massachusetts, will be outfitting its firefighters with biometric Oura rings to monitor their health during the COVID-19 pandemic. The NBA has made the rings available to basketball players in the league’s bubble in Orlando, although Duxbury is the first fire department to take advantage of the new technology. “I […]
The Vishakhapatnam Waltair railway division has deployed Mantra’s temperature detection system at three East coast railway stations in India. The Mirada Rapid system has now been installed at Bhubaneswar and Cuttack stations, in addition to Vishakhapatnam. Mirada Rapid will scan the forehead of each person who steps onto the railway platform, and determine the temperature […]
At the end of what has felt for many like a particularly dark week, it’s perhaps no surprise that almost all of the items in our roundup of FindBiometrics’ most popular articles concern technologies related to COVID-19. Fortunately, these are all positive stories, pointing to ways that society can cope with at least one of […]
The World Travel & Tourism Council has released a new set of Safe Travels protocols to facilitate the eventual reopening of the economy. The protocols apply to the airline industry, but also cover related industries like tours, convention centers, and events. According to the WTTC, the new protocols were developed through talks with multiple travel […]
Acuant is hoping that its new Acuant Health portfolio will provide governments and other organizations with the technology they need to reopen the economy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. To that end, the company has released new tools and APIs that will allow those organizations to build mobile contact tracing applications and monitor […]
Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That has confirmed that the company is currently in talks with multiple state and federal agencies to implement a contact tracing program to track the spread of COVID-19. The program would use facial recognition to identify people who may have interacted with someone who later tested positive for the disease. Contact […]
Suprema has addressed some of the public health concerns that people now have about shared fingerprint sensors in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company notes that studies have shown that the coronavirus can survive on a hard surface like a fingerprint reader for anywhere from several hours to several days, making that surface a […]
The thermal imaging trend continues. The latest offering is a new Temperature Detection & Face Recognition machine from India’s Secureye, which joins a growing roster of contactless temperature solutions that have emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the name would suggest, the Secureye machine offers both facial recognition and temperature detection capabilities. […]
China is expanding the scope of its biometric network in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Guangzhou Public Transportation Group is now using biometric tablets to check the temperature (and the identity) of every passenger who boards one of the city’s buses. The tablets themselves are being installed next to the driver’s seat on the […]
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