According to Dubai-based RecFaces, its Id-Gate biometric solution has been deployed to ensure the security of a major manufacturing plant in El Estor, Guatemala.

The company says that PRONICO Compañia Procesadora de Niquel de Izabal (Solway Investment Group) is a manufacturing plant with over 1,800 employees. The project is aimed to improve the security of the enterprise and to ensure reliable reports on actual hours worked.

The Id-Gate solution is 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.

That is then 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 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 Alexandr Brezhnev, the CTO of PRONICO.

“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.”

“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.”