RecFaces implements facial recognition solution in Guatemala’s major industrial enterprise enhancing its security
In February 2023, the Id-Gate solution developed by RecFaces, the Dubai-based company, became part of a major project to ensure the security of the ferronickel industrial enterprise in El Estor, Guatemala.
Compañia Procesadora de Niquel de Izabal is a manufacturing plant with over 1800 employees. The project is aimed to improve the security of the enterprise and prevent violations and to ensure reliable reports on actual hours worked.
The Id-Gate solution is exactly designed to verify the access rights of companies’ employees or visitors using biometric face identification instead of less secure key-cards or RFID-cards. When a user comes into the entrance area, the installed cameras/scanners take a picture of their face, which is used to make a biometric template. Then it is compared for compliance with the data in the profile database, and according to the results of the check, the person is either allowed to enter the facility, or the system denies them access.
Id-Gate compares the data received from the video stream with a list of pre-loaded biometric profiles, as well as with any previously detected images. Upon uploading a list of such profiles and assigning the “list” attribute to them, the solution instantly provides security officers with the information about recognized or unrecognized people, their membership, etc.
“With RecFaces’ Id-Gate biometric solution the security service managed to provide contactless access for the plant’s employees in the checkpoint area, which helped to save time and increase throughput,” said the CTO of the company.
“The goal of Id-Gate facial recognition software is to make sure that only the authorized people get access to a private area of the facility. Besides, it allows the HR-department to control actual hours worked, calculate wages and prevent violations of work ethic; improves the employees’ efficiency and ensures a higher security of the object,” he adds.
“With off-the-shelf biometric solutions, critical manufacturing enterprises keep track of when and where workers enter the facility, ensuring their safety at any given time,” said Tamara Morozova, the CEO of RecFaces.
“The once preferred “RFID-card” method is not only easy to bypass, but does not provide the level of security required when entering restricted areas. It is not hard to imagine friends or colleagues passing over a traditional key-card in order to gain access to secured areas with ease or punching a time card for a friend. Facial recognition allows businesses to ensure security protocols are not disregarded. To make facial recognition applicable then and there, RecFaces created adapters that can be installed just in a few clicks, allowing to exchange a wide range of data between systems in real-time,” she adds.
As facial recognition technology evolves, there is a significant increase in demand for enhancement in security at critical industrial enterprises provoked by the rising number of terrorist activities, coupled with the increasing theft activities on the part of crucial data and information. Analytical agencies agree on forecasts of FRT market growth from 25 to 35% annually until 2028. Thus, in 2022 RecFaces announced several other large-scale projects, including ones for biometric identification of passengers at the Bangkok Metro Chong Nonsi Skywalk and for Telecom Egypt data center.
