The leading technology distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa, TD Africa, is launching a facial recognition tech that will replace its former fingerprint clock in device.
This is in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19. According to sources within the company, it has already begun facial data capturing this week and will launch in August 2020. It will also make it available for all companies under its group.
Medical experts and the WHO have agreed that one of the major ways that COVID-19 spreads is by touching infected surfaces. While face masks reduce the likely spread of the virus via respiratory droplets; there is only so much one can do when it comes to infected surfaces.
Meanwhile, sanitisation is encouraged but reducing the surfaces you touch is even more effective. Thus, the tech giant is taking the lead in using advanced technology to fight the virus.
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With its facial recognition tech fully deployed, TD Africa will be able to reduce one of the infection’s hot spot areas in buildings.
Employees will no longer have to use their thumbprints for identification and clocking in. There would also be no need to sign in with physical pens, as sharing pens and touching book surfaces are also highly infectious.
Speaking about the facial technology in use, the company’s head of IT, Mr Dare Osikoya says; “Following the suspension of biometric employee attendance registration in TD Africa because of the COVID-19 pandemic; the contactless attendance system recently adopted is a desirable development.
“This ensures a safe, hygienic and more productive workplace in the group. The world will not go back to the era of contact devices after this. TD Africa is also actively positioning this to the entire partner ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa as a sure way to fight COVID-19”
Additionally, TD Africa has given some of its staff across various locations, the option of working remotely since the lockdown restrictions were put in place.
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