Nine schools in Scotland's North Ayrshire's school district have planned to incorporate facial recognition in their cafeterias.
To speed up payment and minimize touch amongst students and staff (especially during the pandemic), facial recognition is being explored as a means to do so. During busy lunch hours, facial recognition can help speed up wait time by quickly identifying a student and directly processing a lunch charge to their account.
Schools in North Ayrshire's school district will soon implement CRB Cunningham's facial recognition system, which is currently undergoing hardware checks to ensure its system is safe and encrypted. The software will check against encrypted face templates and will not use live facial recognition. So far, 97 percent of parents of children attending North Ayrshire's schools have offered consent to this new tool. If successful, the device could be adopted by other UK school boards.
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What's Driving This Trend
- Facial Recognition Payment
- More industries can explore the use of facial recognition as a payment tool to minimize touch and speed up transaction processing, especially during the pandemic.
- Encrypted Facial Recognition
- The use of encrypted face templates instead of live facial recognition can increase privacy and security, opening opportunities for industries that prioritize data protection.
- Consent-based Facial Recognition
- The high percentage of consent by parents in North Ayrshire's school district shows the importance of obtaining user consent when implementing facial recognition technology in institutions, creating more opportunities for ethical and responsible use of the technology.
Who This Affects Most
- Education
- Facial recognition can be an innovative way to speed up payment and minimize touch in school cafeterias, creating opportunities for similar implementation in other schools or institutions.
- Retail
- Retailers can explore the use of facial recognition payments in stores to provide a seamless and contactless payment experience for customers, opening opportunities to increase sales and customer satisfaction.
- Finance and Banking
- The use of encrypted facial recognition can enhance security measures in financial institutions, creating opportunities to reinforce data protection and prevent fraudulent activities.
