Amazon launched Amazon one palm payment system, and the contactless palm vein recognition market is expected to explode

9 month 29 Japan , Amazon announces launch Amazon One Palm payment system , Consumers can complete the payment as long as they wave their hands . At present, the system has been installed in two stores near Amazon's headquarters in Seattle Amazon Go The unmanned convenience store is opened . Amazon also plans to Amazon Go Other than in other stores Amazon One Palm payment system .

Amazon Go It's Amazon 2016 year 12 A complete set of applications released in September is applied to “ Unmanned store ” Shopping technology ,2018 year 1 month , This technology is applied to Amazon Go Unmanned convenience store . The unmanned retail store uses computer vision and machine learning algorithms to track shoppers , And charge according to the goods they choose , Thus, the cash register is completely eliminated .

The original customer entered Amazon Go Identity authentication method of unmanned convenience store , It mainly depends on the customer's mobile phone Amazon Go The QR code generated in the application , You can enter the store for self-service shopping only after passing the code scanning authentication of the gate , After checking out , With the help of cameras and sensors , The associated account will be automatically settled . Obviously, this authentication method is not safe enough , It's not convenient . And brand new Amazon One Palm payment system solves this problem , Shoppers place their palms on the scanner at the door or when checking out , You can complete identity authentication and payment .

▲Amazon Go The unmanned convenience store originally used to enter the store by scanning the mobile phone QR code

▲ new Amazon One Palm payment system

Amazon's Amazon Go And dirip, vice president of technology for Amazon book business - Kumar （Dilip Kumar） To express ,Amazon Go Internal tests previously carried out among Amazon employees , Technology has matured . As an experimental service ,Amazon Go It is also part of Amazon's efforts to reshape the way consumers shop .

According to smart core, we know , Amazon's Amazon One Palm payment system adopts non-contact palm vein recognition technology , Compared with the familiar fingerprint recognition 、 Face recognition 、 For biometrics such as iris recognition , Vein recognition technology may be relatively unfamiliar to you , But in Amazon Amazon One Prior to the launch , Vein recognition technology has been applied in many industries and markets .

Vein recognition technology mainly uses the characteristics that hemoglobin in blood vessels has stronger absorption of infrared ray than skin , After the device emits infrared light of a specific frequency to irradiate the palm or finger , Because the hemoglobin in the blood in the skin and subcutaneous vessels has different reflections on infrared rays , Get vein image .

Compared with other biometric technologies , Vein recognition technology has the following six characteristics ：

1、 Low error rate ： The error rate is less than 8 / 10 million , It is much higher than face recognition and fingerprint recognition , Even higher than iris recognition （ One in a million ）, It can be called the highest accuracy in the industry ;

2、 Support living body recognition ： Lose living characteristics Data cannot be read （ From a medical point of view , Once the palm leaves the body , The whole life activity does not exceed 3 Minutes will expire , Hemoglobin in the blood will also be destroyed ）;

3、 Fast and easy to use ; Sure 1 Second recognition , Even if the skin is broken 、 Dirt will not be affected ;

4、 Characteristic stability ： The characteristics of palm vein are different from each other , Left and right hands are different , And for life ;

5、 Security ： Relative to the face 、 Fingerprints and other characteristic information exposed to the human body surface , Palm vein is the characteristic information located inside the human body , Unable to steal , It is more conducive to protecting personal privacy ;

6、 Contactless ： Leave no trace .

According to foreign media reports , Amazon's Amazon One The error rate of palm payment system has been reduced to less than one in a million , Amazon's engineers are trying to improve it to less than one in 100 million . meanwhile , The response speed of this technology is also very fast , It only needs 0.3 second , This greatly speeds up the checkout .

Display according to data ,2020 In, the global biometric market reached 250 Billion dollars .2015 The annual proportion of veins is only 2%, However, to 2020 The year will have 4 Double growth , Get 8% Market share .

And with Amazon Amazon One The launch of palm payment system , And the guiding effect of being a technology giant on the whole industry , It is expected to further ignite the vein recognition market .

In particular, it is worth mentioning , Under the influence of the new epidemic , Non contact biometric technology, which can reduce the spread of novel coronavirus, is becoming more and more popular in the market , Non contact palmprint recognition technology will be promising .

author ： Smart core - Ranger sword