The formula of successful implementation of facial biometrics: a complete product plus creativity

The public sector, educational, medical, industrial, banking, transportation, retail, HoReCa, sport, entertainment and many other sectors are not only showing increased interest in implementing facial biometrics in their processes, but are also constantly increasing their requests for such products, supporting their continuous development.

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Straight, left, right?

The maximum for every industry

A thousand sudden “Oops!” recalled after implementation

“Try before you buy” and other cherries on the cake

It's really useful and very simple

Straight, left, right?

Currently, there are three simultaneous trends in the biometric product market. In the first, the project specification is based on hardware solutions for the creation of an identification system, and selects one of the tested algorithms on the basis of which a fully customized system can be built. Usually, such solutions require an enormous amount of money, time and effort. They are complicated to set up, operate and scale, in addition they are strictly tied to the “iron” from a particular provider. The advantage of this approach is that it can be precisely adjusted to the client's wishes, and that there is “no equivalent”.

The second way is the connection to cloud solutions. These are quite attractive due to their high availability in comparison to fully customized projects. Cloud solutions also allow for a certain amount of customization. Generally, these are ready-made, fine-tuned solutions provided on the SaaS model with payment by subscription or by the number of facts of identification or verification. This path has its own difficulties, which, in particular, requires the client to store critical information in the cloud, including a database of profiles, personal data and even the results of service operation. Practice has shown, in recent months, that the popularity of this way has declined rapidly.

A third way, promoted in particular by RecFaces, is based on the creation of ready-made biometric facial recognition solutions for specific industries. Out-of-the-box, they provide clients with high efficiency and extensive functionality with flexible integration options. A special feature of this approach is the ability to implement the project not only in popular facial recognition technology scenarios, but also using different functions and their combinations for unusual cases, including potential scalability in the future.

The maximum for every industry

Promoting nine ready-made software products in its product line, RecFaces is an adept of universal solutions with affordable pricing — ready for quick and easy implementation without additional adjustment, with a wide range of features that are actually demanded by the market. All these nuances are thoroughly investigated by the company already at the preliminary market research stage and then carefully tested so that their implementation in a particular deployment case leads to a simple change of system settings.

The RecFaces product matrix presents functionally complete solutions based on various identification algorithms for different business sectors, with user-friendly interfaces, reports and notification capabilities.

• Id-Guard — facial biometric identification in a video stream for business centres, industrial facilities, sports arenas and other buildings with a high number of visitors
• Id-Gate — addition of biometric identification capabilities for access control systems in business centres, government offices, industrial facilities, etc.
• Id-ATM — biometric access to bank transactions via banks (ATMs)
• Id-Time — biometric identification to accurately monitor the working hours of employees in government offices, industrial plants, business centres, as well as retail and other large companies with large numbers of employees
• Id-Target — biometric identification with a completely new level of targeted client interaction, focusing on the entertainment industry, retail, HoReCa, etc.
• Id-Logon — biometric access control to the operational or information systems of organisations on the level of public and educational institutions, banks, etc.
• Id-Fit — quick and reliable check of client access rights to the fitness club without the involvement of the staff
• Id-Check — reliable face verification for business centres, government offices, HoReCa, etc.
• Id-Welcome — presentation of personalized media content in business centres, government offices, sports facilities, etc.
• Id-Line — biometric identification to extend the functionality of electronic queue terminals in business centres, government offices, sports facilities, etc.

Integration of the RecFaces software product with existing equipment and systems is seamless, without disrupting their original functionality, only extending it with new capabilities. For example, classic video surveillance systems are enriched with the ability to recognize people, track the movements of specific individuals, build reports in faces, notify security staff about incidents, as well as a number of other previously unavailable options after integration with facial biometrics technology.

After the addition of facial biometrics capabilities to an access control and management system (ACS), any turnstile or door with a terminal is able to recognize people by their face, and, depending on the settings, allow or restrict personal access.

RecFaces solutions also add multi-factor authentication capabilities to increase the level of security. After the integration of facial biometrics technology, the ACS, in contrast, further extends its functionality for multi-factor authentication. The system now has a convenient way to combine facial recognition with QR code, RFID card or PIN access, to use facial recognition as an additional access level, and to monitor body temperature and mask compliance.

Another obvious example would be a scenario where the ability to authorize employees by face while accessing operating systems or corporate applications is required. In practice, there is also often a need to control the presence of an employee in the workplace or the presence of that particular employee.

The entire integrated solution is managed and controlled centrally from a user-friendly interface. It is very important that the client can choose the most convenient integration option — whether a fully autonomous solution or in connection with the client's external systems or other RecFaces solutions.

A thousand sudden “Oops!” recalled after implementation

The long-term strategy of RecFaces in building facial recognition products means that no matter how large, complex and unique the client's project, the company's ready-made product already has extensive and tested functionality based on experience with different clients, a fine-tuned interface for easy integration with the IT infrastructure, and comprehensive technical support.

Moreover, the company produces regular updates of its software to reflect the most current changes in biometric technology and market demands. This was the case, for example, in the pandemic when the initial conditions changed significantly (development of the unique facial recognition mask technology), requiring an extremely fast addition of advanced functionality to products such as Id-Gate — a biometric solution that enriches ACS to facilitate and manage access to the facility — and Id-Guard that enriches the classic VMS with biometric functions for face identification and increase security at the facility.

This approach allows the client to realise the greatest number of their needs in the shortest possible time and on a reasonable price. For example, it takes around 20 minutes to install any ready-made Id-Guard or Id-Gate products by RecFaces using an installer. It also does not take much time to learn the features and additional settings.

Another advantage of the RecFaces ready-made solution is the comprehensive, intelligent integration with most professional and corporate video surveillance and access control systems. These features are included in the company's boxed products by default.

Among the most interesting examples are Id-Gate, which, after purchase, is ready to work with Bosch Building Integration System (BIS), Honeywell Pro-Watch, Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Security Expert,Lenel OnGuard, DormaKaba Exos,Bolid Orion Pro, Sigur, RusGuard, KONE Access, and other manufacturers' access control systems. Additionally, RecFaces includes Id-Guard also provides certified integration modules with video surveillance systems such as: Pelco VideoXpert, Milestone XProtect, Bosch BVMS.

Even if additional integration is needed at some stage of the project specification, RecFaces solutions offer integrators a convenient cross-system collaboration toolbox with an open API, which can resolve most such issues.

“Try before you buy” and other cherries on the cake

All of these factors are more than enough to highlight the advantages of the “boxed” approach as a more quick, profitable and efficient way to implement facial biometrics technologies compared with a fully customized implementation project “from the algorithm” and even a cloud-based option. However, the RecFaces offer has another significant advantage, and that is the ability to install and run a pilot solution in a real-life environment.

RecFaces offers a free demo license for a three month period, during which the client without any risk to their budget can try out the solution on their facility, test various settings and finally maybe understand exactly what they can get fast enough from the recognition system “out of the box”. And most importantly, to evaluate the benefits of this approach for their budget.

RecFaces provides free online webinars- separately for each solution. During these trainings, partners and clients receive detailed information about the functionality and fine-tuning of each product for effective ways for solving problems with its help. In this way, the company helps partners fully utilize the capabilities of the products.

In some cases RecFaces providing training involves experts from technology partner companies, including a range of surveillance system manufacturers. The RecFaces training courses are also regularly updated to include the latest technological developments in the company's products.

It's really useful and very simple

A client has come to you with a project to implement facial biometrics in his company. The client already has a profile infrastructure with a maximum of hardware and software systems, is planning a large-scale project, and insists on deploying specific features that they believe are unique and “unparalleled”.

There is no reason to rush into huge budgets and hiring highly specialized experts for custom implementation of algorithms. As the practice of RecFaces has shown as a result of working with many companies from various industries, the capabilities of a ready-made product with a large and properly tested functionality, a fine-tuned interface and proven experience for easy integration with the customer infrastructure, as well as well-functioning technical support, are usually enough to solve problems of the majority of projects.

Of course, choosing a “boxed” product can raise a lot of questions for both the client and the integrator. In case of RecFaces products all these questions are solved very easily: just sign up for the upcoming webinar of the company where most questions will be comprehensively answered. You will also get a demo version of the product you need.

The webinar schedule you can find on this page.