Hi All, my company is actively looking into pilot testing Facial Recognition for Time and Attendance and potentially access controls.
During the last ISCWest we observed multiple FR solutions but the one that caught our attention was "Sentinel watch", does anyone have any feedback on this company and its solution?
If someone has any experience implementing this type of requirements, I would appreciate if you can share the lessons learned.
Thanks!
#1, the good news is that the applications you want are a lot easier to do than video surveillance based facial recognition, since the users will be actively presenting themselves to the camera.
Have you thought about iris? I think iris is likely to work better and more robustly than face.
As for Sentinel Watch, they are a startup, with 6 employees currently listed on LinkedIn, whose website tagline is "Sentinel prevents crime." Given that there are a number of mature biometric based access / Time and attendance systems out there, I don't see the need to use a risker, early stage company.
John, thanks for the feedback and agree!.. from your professional opinion, is there any other solution in the market that has improve their FR capabilities that we should look into it?
Regarding the time and attendance biometric system, we have used fingerprints and we have experienced fraud (mainly in Asia Pacific) in the past with finger tip rubber thumbs. is there any iris application/hardware that stands out from the rest available in the market?
is there any iris application/hardware that stands out from the rest available in the market?
For fingerprints:
In general, a reader that includes one or more Liveness Detection Solutions will mitigate fake fingers or atypical dermal thickness caused by wearing finger cots or print films.
Usually optical sensor type equipment (not conductive strip or capacitance type sensors) and most difficult to fool when combined with Liveness Detection.
For Iris:
Spoofing or fooling iris readers is less of a problem in contrast to the physiological ones.
Reader positioning and location is important, because even modest backlighting can create reading difficulties. Iris readers can be difficult to position for all users, who have different heights and standoff distances.
We covered one reader that includes a wider reading area than typical: Princeton Identity Access 200 Iris Scanners Examined.
Other popular Iris brands, per (member) Favorite Biometrics 2018 survey:
Specific Reader Brand Mentions
Several integrators shared particular brands or fingerprint reader offerings they have most success with. However, most admitted experience with other reader types and brands are limited, mainly due to lack of demand:
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