Moscow Metro Face Pay facial recognition
Face Pay is a facial recognition-based cashless, cardless and phoneless system spread across 240 Moscow Metro stations. Passengers only need to look at a camera to travel. Introduced in October 2021, Face Pay was developed by Russian software firms NtechLab, VisionLabs and Tevian in conjunction with Russian bank VTB Group. Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin welcomed the initiative by boasting the city 'is the first in the world to introduce Face Pay on such a scale. The technology is new and very complex, we will continue to work on improving it.'
- Organisation involved
- Moscow Metro
- Product, system or model
- Face Pay
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