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gave us some insight into their www.AmericanSecurityToday.com thought process, which they have now recently adjusted due to virus and hygiene concerns. ing hand-wave April readers at their 2019 - Edition 43 security optical turnstiles for speed and throughput, and at the same time had specified fin- This client employs thousands gerprint readers at several hun- of readers across their securi- dred doors, at their new corpo- ty entrances and access control rate campus. doors. But more recently, the end user The high-profile customer had is now considering a major recently designed a system us- change to their credentialing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rpSyJgLnc4&feature=emb_logo ( Facial Recognition can be a superior credentialing system for doors, entry points, and optical turnstiles, when compared with traditional access card readers, fingerprint biometrics. The recent COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns about hygiene such that any card access or “touch “ touch” ” bio- metrics will be eventually considered for replacement by facial recognition and other touchless biometric systems. systems . Biometrics like this can be faster, more secure, secure , and certainly more hygienic when used with a swing glass or retracting glass optical turnstile or a pedestrian security portal.) 15