{"id":7683,"date":"2017-12-12T01:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2022-06-21T00:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:29:59","slug":"shanghai-subway-adopts-voice-facial-recognition-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/biometric-technology\/shanghai-subway-adopts-voice-facial-recognition-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Subway Adopts Voice and Facial Recognition Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shanghai Subway is one of the busiest railway systems in the world and provides a daily commuting system for millions of people. It has all the latest technologies to help with the reliability & convenience of transporting millions of passengers to China\u2019s biggest city and financial hub. It was recently announced they are now they are going to implement intelligent ticket machines by using \u00a0voice and facial recognition systems to further improve their processes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The operator of the Shanghai Metro, Shanghai Shentong Metro Group along with the developer group plan that \u201cfar-field\u201d voice recognition technology<\/a><\/strong> will be installed in ticket machines in all stations. To verify the identity of passengers they will set facial recognition systems at the entrance of stations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The initial plan to implement this system is to have passengers input their destination to the AI enabled ticket machine, then it will suggest the best route for that destination. It\u2019s important to mention that there are more than four thousand trains serving the Shanghai Metro network, which has 367 stations altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPassengers don\u2019t even need to use any special word to activate the kiosk,\u201d said by one of the officials of this program. They hope that this far-field voice recognition technology will work correctly from up to five meter distance even with the extremely loud noises of the subway station.<\/span><\/p>\n