Biometric System

Biometric systems access control has a proven track record of successful deployments across a
variety of industry types. Despite the varying challenges in different use cases, some of the
applications like physical access, logical access, identification, employee attendance, etc. can be
deployed regardless of industry type. This flexibility of biometric applications made them mark
their presence in government as well as private outfits. Biometric applications are particularly
useful at the places where a lot of customers, members or visitors enters or exits a facility, or
require identification or verification.
Hospitality industry units like hotels, resorts, inns, and casinos often face the challenge of
ensuring security of guests while keeping the convenience in place. However, they always seem
to struggle to achieve desired results. For example, if a hotel enforces too many formalities or
procedures on the name of security, guests may get annoyed and never return. On the other hand,
feeble security measures can leave guests, visitors, or employees vulnerable. This imbalance can
have a long-term impact on the business as hotels or resorts are the places where people want to
feel privileged and welcomed, not troubled.
Preference tracking with guest biometrics is the fastest way to identify guests and track their
preferences. When guests go to the check in counter, they need to just put their finger on the
fingerprint scanner and their account information and preferences are be displayed.
Security might not look like a key business aspect, but it is more important than any other
business function. While hotels and resort administrators have their focus on facilities and
convenience 24/7, security might get easily overlooked. There have been many incidents around
the world in which hotels have been targeted and a lot of people had to lose their lives. Hotels in
fact are a soft target for terrorist attacks, where many guests, hotel staff and visitors can be
targeted in an open area and least resistance can be expected. Security can never go irrelevant
when it comes to hotels. Fortunately, biometric technology offers so many options for
surveillance and security that users can choose and customize it to suit their needs.
We have discussed about door access with biometrics, but access control is not the only security
measure that biometrics can handle. Most hotels leverage surveillance cameras for security and
their efficiency can be improved multifold with integrating facial recognition. A facial
recognition system can scan live footage and recognize subjects if their identities have been pre-
established.
Biometric technology offers a superlative balance between security and convenience. It can be
easily scaled up when security is more important than convenience. Its applications have been
equally deployed for both securities focused as well as convenience focused use cases.
Hospitality industry particularly faces convenience-security trade-off and biometrics can be the
solution having the right balance of both.

References
www.bayometric.com and www.touchngoid.com.