New Business Opportunity for Facial Recognition Manufacturers
Obviously, one of symptom for COVID-19 is body temperature over 38 degrees Celsius – A Fever. After few months the disease outbreak, Chinese company says it has developed a facial recognition technology that can use to identify people when wearing mask and connected to a temperature sensor to measure body temperature while identifying the person’s identity and result. The expert claim that the system design aims to help detect and fight COVID-19 and discard people who are fever to entering building premises. It’s best use at building entrance and control using barrier gate system.
There’s few manufacturer launching similar product since February 2020. Some manufacturer claim that it can identify everyone in a crowd of up to 30 people within a second, and others verification speed is 0.2 seconds for 1 people. But research still on going to overcome an issue of personnel wearing sunglasses and mask.
Business Opportunity
One of China Firm – Megvii applied for 100 million yuan to develop technology including means to improve the accuracy of identifying masked individuals in crowds, according to one of the lists. Megvii said it is working to optimize the artificial intelligence-enabled body temperature screening product it launched last week to help fight the virus, by spotting and locating people in a crowd who have elevated temperatures, even if they are wearing masks. Megvii does not verify the personal identities of people wearing masks.
Companies like Dermalog in Germany and Telpo in China are speeding up the technology of face recognition. It’s touch-less and hygiene compare to fingerprint scanners which can be potentially spread infection if someone with COVID-19 use unclean scanner. The development focus on noncontact body temperature measurement plus face recognition in order to meet the rapid need to diagnose the patient and isolate and control the virus in time.
New technology believes to further improve verification speeds more than 10 times which will save time and reduce congestion and also support more user capacity. It is suitable for government, customs, airports, railway stations, enterprises, schools, communities, and other crowded public places Wisesoft China, combine face recognition technology with temperature sensing module. Fingerprint scanner manufacturer feels it’s ridiculous and advising that those who use the scanner should use hand sanitizer afterwards. People still touch on door handle, and any object nearby that may pose a high risk expose to virus.
Fingerprint analysis was first invested and adopt since 1980s and NEC, Japan was the first to build and market automated fingerprint analysis for forensic use by police and federal investigators. The company has now morphed into one of the biggest companies selling biometric technology across the world, and it pitches facial recognition as the most cutting edge of its offerings.
In Russia, facial recognition is use to track those leaving quarantine. In Shanghai, China communities adopt facial recognition to reduce contact with shared physical surfaces.
Facial recognition technology is the ability of the machine to “learn”. So if you want to implement the technology in your processes, make sure you have plenty of data to “feed” the machine.
Pros & Con of Facial Recognition
Pros
- Increased Security
Biggest pros to enhances safety and security surveillance systems. It’s easy for company to identify and track anyone who come onto premise and use to capture some information after verification of identify is successful. No key, badge or password that can be stolen or lost.
- Fast Accurate
Facial recognition technology provides verification that is convenient, quick, and accurate.
- No Contact
Facial recognition better than fingerprint scanning because of its non-contact process. People don’t have to worry about the potential drawbacks related to fingerprint identification technology, such as germs or smudges.
Cons
- Cost Impact
Cost of facial recognition system require high quality cameras sensor and advanced analytic algorithm software to ensure accuracy and speed.
- Data Storage
The quality images for Face Recognition may consume significant amount of storage.
- Changes in Appearance & Lux Control
Any major changes in appearance, expose to sunlight may affect authentication process. It’s serious flaw and lot of test needed to guarantee that a person will stand still and face the camera and if the person changes the appearance, it would be almost impossible to recognize them.
