Denmark Nets Trials Tender

Pilot programme enabling 1000 Danes to use facial recognition to make payments launches in office community.With the tagline Hungry Face it Nets a leading provider of digital payment services across Europe has launched a pilot programme testing facial recognition as a payment method. Around 1000 people all working at Vibenshuset an office community of 25 companies in Copenhagen can sign up to participate in the pilot. By linking their face with their employee ID card they can now pay for their lunch using their face at Kokkenes Kkkens cafeteria.Jesper Kildegaard Poulsen Head of Creation Lab Nets comments We are used to bringing something with us each time we need to make a payment cash card or a device. But maybe it doesnt have to be this way. What if you could pay by just showing upToday we have the technology to use faces as identification and validation when making a payment. However how people feel about having their faces scanned is still under question. This trial will help us to learn more about consumer attitudes to facial recognition payments. Although facial-recognition authenticated payments still sound futuristic the solution being trialled is easy for merchants to install requiring just a tablet with a pre-installed webcam and app.Kildegaard Poulsen adds Merchants offering self-service solutions would be the most obvious adopters of facial recognition technology. Imagine the solution at a burger bar where you are recognised at the self-service counter and asked Do you want the same meal as last time Jesper This is where we see the largest potential.The trial at Vibenshuset is not the first time that Nets has piloted technology to understand how people perceive and react to biometric authentication. In April 2018 Nets launched a finger vein payments pilot at Copenhagen Business School through which more than 22000 transactions have been completed so far.