Beijing Subway to use facial recognition technology to enhance security

The Beijing Subway, which handles about 12.3 million passengers everyday, will use a facial recognition technology to classify passengers and help security officials to enhance the safety measures, an official said here on Tuesday.

The decision comes amidst huge pressure on security checks of passengers and items.

“While Beijing subway faces large passenger flow in the rail transit network every day, it has placed huge pressure on security checks of passengers and items,” Zhan Minghui, director of Beijing Rail Traffic Control Centre, told a meeting on urban rail transit operation and development.