Hardware
Face Recognition Terminals — Contactless verification that works with gloves, dust and worn hands
- Supply or supply & install
- All 7 emirates
- Free site survey
Where this technology wins
- Fully contactless — no hygiene objection, no shared touch surface
- Unaffected by gloves, dust, oil, cuts or worn fingerprints
- Fast enough for shift-change surges (typically under a second per person)
- Works with safety helmets and standard face masks on current terminals
- Hardest of the common technologies to defeat with a photo, given liveness detection
Where it struggles — read this before ordering
- Higher unit cost than fingerprint or card readers
- Needs sensible placement — direct sun or strong backlight on the lens degrades accuracy
- Full-face protection such as welding shields or respirators will not verify
- Requires a mounting height appropriate to your workforce; a single fixed height suits a narrower range of people than you would expect
Typical deployment: Main entrances, site and accommodation gates, production floor entrances, and any environment where fingerprint enrolment fails on a meaningful share of staff.
Device types
Specifications
Compact Face Terminal
Small-footprint indoor terminal for offices, outlets and clinics
Specification
- Face capacity
- Typically 1,500 – 3,000 templates
- Log capacity
- 100,000+ transactions
- Verification speed
- < 1 second
- Connectivity
- TCP/IP, Wi-Fi; 4G on selected models
- Additional credentials
- RFID card, PIN
- Display
- Colour touchscreen, typically 4–5 inch
- Mounting
- Wall or desk stand, indoor
- Access control
- Relay output for electric lock (model dependent)
Best for
- Retail outlets
- Clinics and salons
- Small offices
- Branch locations
Our note
The usual choice for single-entrance businesses under about 150 staff. Indoor rated — do not specify this for an unshaded outdoor gate.
Industrial / Outdoor Face Terminal
IP-rated terminal built for gates, yards and production entrances
Specification
- Face capacity
- Typically 5,000 – 50,000 templates
- Log capacity
- 200,000+ transactions
- Ingress protection
- IP65 or better
- Operating temperature
- Rated for UAE ambient ranges; shaded mounting advised
- Connectivity
- TCP/IP, Wi-Fi, 4G, RS485
- Offline buffering
- Full local storage with sync on reconnection
- Additional credentials
- RFID card, PIN, fingerprint (model dependent)
- Access control
- Relay outputs for locks, barriers and turnstiles
Best for
- Construction site gates
- Labour accommodations
- Factory entrances
- Warehouse yards
Our note
Specify this — not an indoor unit — for anything outdoors. A standard indoor terminal on an exposed UAE gate is a specification error that fails in its first summer.
High-Capacity Face Terminal
Large-workforce terminal for high-throughput entrances
Specification
- Face capacity
- Typically 20,000 – 100,000 templates
- Recognition distance
- Approx. 0.3 – 3 m, model dependent
- Throughput
- Designed for continuous shift-change flow
- Connectivity
- TCP/IP, Wi-Fi, 4G
- Mask & helmet
- Recognition with standard mask and safety helmet
- Liveness detection
- Anti-spoofing against photo and video
- Integration
- Turnstile, speed gate and barrier control
Best for
- Large factories
- Turnstile lobbies
- Multi-thousand headcount sites
- Port and terminal gates
Our note
Throughput, not headcount, drives quantity. Plan one terminal per 80–100 people arriving in the same ten-minute window.
Common in these industries
- Construction & ContractingAttendance that survives a live site and an audit
- Manufacturing & FactoriesShift-accurate attendance for production floors
- Healthcare & ClinicsHygienic attendance and controlled access for clinical environments
- Corporate Offices & Commercial TowersDiscreet attendance and door access for professional environments
Installed across the UAE
- DubaiSurvey within 24 hours, installation typically within 48 hours of approval
- Abu DhabiSurvey within 48 hours in Abu Dhabi city and Mussafah; 2–3 working days for Al Ain and Al Dhafra
- SharjahSurvey within 24–48 hours across all Sharjah industrial areas and free zones
- AjmanSurvey within 48 hours; often combined with a Sharjah route the same day
- Ras Al KhaimahSurvey within 2–3 working days; survey and installation usually combined in one trip
- FujairahSurvey within 3 working days; combined survey-and-install mobilisation standard
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Questions
Face Recognition Terminals — FAQ
Can someone fool face recognition with a photograph?
Current-generation terminals include liveness detection that distinguishes a live face from a printed photo or a screen, so a casual attempt fails. No biometric is absolutely unspoofable, but in practice face recognition with liveness detection is considerably harder to defeat than a shared card or PIN, which is the realistic alternative.
Does it work with a face mask or a safety helmet?
Yes on current terminals, which map the periocular region around the eyes. Full-face protection — welding shields, respirators, full-face helmets — will not verify, and for those roles we pair the terminal with a card or palm reader at the same entrance.
Is a photo of every employee stored on the device?
Terminals store an irreversible mathematical template derived from facial geometry, not a photograph that could be recovered. Some systems optionally capture a verification snapshot for audit, which is a configurable setting you can turn off. This distinction matters for your data protection position and we cover it during handover.
Where should the terminal be mounted?
At a height suited to the range of your workforce, out of direct sun and away from strong backlight such as a glass door behind the user. Placement affects day-to-day reliability more than the choice of model does, which is the main thing a site survey is for.
Need face recognition installed?
Free site survey, enrolment tested on your actual staff, and one fixed quotation covering hardware, installation, software and training.
Same-day response, on-site survey within 48 hours