Titanium Group to secure Hong Kong Housing Authority
Company wins $1 million contract to provide facial recognition-based time attendance systems for 250 sites; experts call it one of the largest such projects on the island
Biometrics-based time attendance systems may be running into controversy in the United States, but somehow we get the feeling that things will be different in Hong Kong, where San Jose, California-based Titanium Group has won a $1 million exclusive contract to supply facial recognition systems to secure 250 sites controlled by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. Known as HD e-Face, the effort is said to be one of the largest such biometric programs on the island, with the Housing Authority managing public rental housing estates, courts, commercial properties and factory estates, with a total of approximately 8,000 security guards and 5,300 cleaning people — many of whom, it seems, like to buddy-punch to avoid performing their duties. Titanium is partnering with ELM Computer Technologies, the Hong Kong system integration arm of Computer Science Corporation, to deploy this system.
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