HID, Olea Team Up on Biometric Kiosk

“The new HID-Olea Kiosk concept integrates HID’s U.ARE.U Camera Identification System, enabling facial recognition for registered users, via the Olea Hypermodular Kiosk model.”

HID has teamed up with Los Angeles-based Olea Kiosks to bring biometric authentication to the latter’s self-service kiosk solutions.

Founded back in 1975, Olea Kiosks has established a reputation for high-quality, customizable kiosk solutions, built to spec. Today, it has a sprawling, 90,000 square foot facility in Southern California, and serves major customers including Apple, IBM, Dell, and Nike, among others.

The new HID-Olea Kiosk concept integrates HID’s U.ARE.U Camera Identification System, enabling facial recognition for registered users, via the Olea Hypermodular Kiosk model. The design can also be modified to incorporate support for fingerprint and barcode scanners, ID readers, and other HID offerings.

In a statement announcing the collaboration, the companies explained that Olea saw strong appeal in HID’s U.ARE.U solution thanks to its strong performance in evaluations by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); its sophisticated “In-the-Wild” recognition and presentation attack detection capabilities; and its use of AI training designed to minimize algorithmic bias.

Previously focused on fingerprint recognition, the U.ARE.U brand came into HID Global’s portfolio through its acquisition of Crossmatch in 2018. HID has since extended the brand to include sophisticated facial recognition technology developed in collaboration with Paravision.

HID and Olea say that their jointly developed biometric kiosks are already commercially available, highlighting potential applications across a range of sectors including healthcare, hospitality, retail, banking, government, and transportation, among others.

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January 25, 2024 – by Alex Perala