This Monday, China launched a world-first payment system using palm biometrics on the railway line at Beijing’s Daxing Airport Line.
According to the official press, passengers can now “easily enter the station and board the high-speed train” without tickets, payment cards or digital wallets.
The initiative represents “significant progress in rail transport by simplifying the entry process and improving the quality of travel,” the authorities added.
Travelers can swipe their hand over the biometric recognition device to enter the station, eliminating the need to use tickets or other forms of payment.
Since each person has a unique palm vein pattern, this biometric identification technology is one of the most accurate in the world.
The Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission has installed palm-reading and writing devices in the ticketing area and modified the pay machines to accommodate this innovative payment method.
China is the world leader in the biometric payment market, using technologies such as facial recognition, iris recognition, heart rate analysis and vein mapping.
Companies such as Ant Group, which owns the Alipay electronic payment service, and Tencent, the owner of the WeChat Pay digital wallet, have promoted the adoption of these technologies both in physical institutions and on digital platforms, which has almost led to the disappearance of physical money. in the world.country.
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Source: CM Jornal

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