The Tokyo 2020 Summer Games will feature facial recognition kiosks during both Olympic and Paralympic events to verify the identity of athletes, officials, media, and other staff.
The system, the first of its kind to be used at the Games, will be powered by biometric security giant and Tokyo 2020 “gold partner” NEC. Images of every accredited person’s face will be collected beforehand and stored in a database that will be used to verify identities at checkpoints.
“This latest technology will enable strict identification of accredited people compared with relying solely on the eyes of security staff, and also enables swift entry to venues which will be necessary in the intense heat of summer,” said Tsuyoshi Iwashita, Tokyo 2020’s executive director of security.