A new milestone has just been reached in the commercialization of the VisionPass 3D facial recognition terminal created by IDEMIA, since the solution has just been adopted in Japan to ensure the security of a large utility company.

A fruitful partnership with a Japanese manufacturer

To enter the Japanese market, IDEMIA is partnering with Shoden, a manufacturer of enterprise-grade security systems, to deploy the VisionPass terminal alongside the Security Center platform developed by Genetec. From this alliance will emerge a complete security solution that will be used to control access to the utility company’s buildings in tenths of a second without contact. This combination of technology will also be demonstrated in Shoden’s Solution Lab, where potential future customers will be able to test the terminals on their own.

A demand accentuated by the current health situation

The contactless identification solution offered by IDEMIA is all the more attractive as the global health situation requires increased compliance with hygiene measures. Controlling access to buildings, in particular public ones, without contact has become a real priority for public authorities and many airports, stadiums and other spaces linked to the administration have set up facial recognition terminals in Japan.

The ever more reliable VisionPass, with or without a mask

In the current health situation, a new challenge is facing facial recognition algorithms: the wearing of a mandatory mask in public places. In this area, the tests are successful, since the company can boast of an accuracy rate of 95% in the recognition of mask wearers, the highest score recorded by the United States Department of Homeland Security, during the last Biometric Technology Rally.