This article is from the WeChat public account: IT Times (ID: vittimes) , author: Pan Shaoying

After resuming work, white-collar workers who work in Zhangjiang Venture Workshop @ 环湖 800 commercial building experienced a different temperature measurement method. No need to take off the mask for face recognition or extend the wrist temperature measurement, as long as the eyes look A small screen similar to a camera, 1 meter away, stood for about two seconds, and you can enter the building after hearing the prompt “Identity authentication is successful and the temperature is normal”. At the same time, the employee ’s name, ID number (hide some numbers) , and temperature will be displayed on the screen.

The so-called iris temperature measurement is simply to integrate the iris recognition and infrared temperature measurement module on one device to realize identity authentication and temperature measurement simultaneously, but the premise is to collect human iris information first. But it also brings hidden worries. It is called the most accurate, hardest to forge, and fastest processing biological feature at present-after the iris information is collected, will our last point of privacy be “snapped out”?

01 Iris temperature measurement became popular

From the Spring Festival to the present, Liu Jin (pseudonym) has been busy receiving the leaders of parks and enterprises who want to install iris temperature measuring equipment . Liu Jin, a sales manager of an iris temperature measuring equipment company in Beijing, said that during this period, equipment sales have increased a lot compared to before.

“Twenty or thirty units of equipment can be shipped every day, and there are not many stocks. The shipping time is about 15 working days. It is relatively tight. The factory has not rested after the Chinese New Year, and workers have been working overtime.” Liu Jin told the ” IT Times reporter.

The accuracy of iris recognition is very high, misunderstandingThe rate is less than one ten-millionth, and more than 200 iris feature points need to be extracted for encoding when collecting.