How does Contactless Biometrics become more relevant during COVID-19?

The novel coronavirus prompted biometrics transformation for a contactless global world.

Global uneasiness over the rise of COVID-19 has increased the fast development of biometric products.

• Japanese developers are developing many new technologies, which include biometric validation provider NEC’s new security gates that can recognize people when they are wearing face masks. Fujitec and sensing technologies manufacturer Optex based in Japan, are innovating techniques to introduce contactless hand signals to places such as elevators to open doors.
• Lately, NEC Technologies India project with the Airports Authority of India to execute the paperless biometric boarding medium at four varied airports. As offices start to reopen in India after the lockdown, the contactless biometrics Attendance System is getting prominence. IT companies in Hyderabad, India, are for a time being stopping the fingerprint-based biometric systems, replacing them with card-based verification or facial biometrics. This technology was implemented after one worker tested positive for the novel coronavirus last month in the capital of southern India’s Telangana state.
• As per information, China is putting facial recognition to detect infected people on novel healthcare buses that screen passengers when they ride the bus. These high-tech buses are made by Shanghai-based Sunwin Bus Corporation. They use artificial intelligence (AI) and an infrared thermal imaging camera that tells the driver when a fevered person boards the bus or highlight people who are not wearing masks. The technology is also designed to kill the novel coronavirus with ultraviolet (UV) lighting in the airways. Facial recognition with temperature sensors has become very usual in Shanghai, China. The China Electronics Technology Group started a smartphone app that permits its users to scan quick response (QR) codes via Alipay or WeChat to know if they are near the person who has or had the virus.s
• Dermalog Germany’s biggest biometrics company noted that fevers were a symptom in nearly 90 percent of individuals who received novel coronavirus detection in China and making screening an important tool to control the spread of the virus. The company lately implemented its biometric border control system with an integrated fever detection technique at the Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. This technique can recognize fingerprints and faces, take travelers’ temperatures, and informs authorities if travelers need to be sent for health checkups.

The fast spread of the novel coronavirus led to the rise of a superb innovative biometric monitoring technology to control the transmission of the pandemic.