FaceFirst Platform Overview
FaceFirst is a facial recognition software platform designed to be scalable, fast and accurate while maintaining the highest levels of security and privacy. FaceFirst provides surveillance, access control, mobile face recognition, biometric data and more.FaceFirst helps customers create safer communities, great customer experiences and personalized service through face recognition and AI. Using the FaceFirst platform, retailers, transportation centers, law enforcement agencies and other great organizations can stop crimes before they happen and improve customer engagement and loyalty. FaceFirst is highly accurate, scalable, secure and private. The platform enables a full range of surveillance, customer engagement, mobile, access control and desktop forensic face recognition capabilities.
FaceFirst offers a robust integration with Genetec Security, making Security Center the central hub for receiving face recognition alerts and analytics.
FaceFirst can:
Match a person at speeds of up to 75 million comparisons in 0.1 seconds
Receive positive alerts in real time
Notify any number of systems and mobile devices
Stop crime before it happens
Analyze match and visit patterns like never before
Retail Crime Prevention and Safety
Global retailers today are challenged with reducing inventory loss and keeping customers and employees safe throughout their stores. According to the National Retail Federation, inventory shrink is a $48.9 billion problem in the U.S. alone.
The FaceFirst platform alerts retailers instantly the moment a known dishonest customer or dangerous person enters any of their stores. FaceFirst creates a shared threat intelligence network across thousands of retail locations worldwide to create safe zones across locations and geographies. We have helped retailers prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in inventory loss to date throughout their stores.
Public Safety
FaceFirst helps public safety personnel improve situational awareness through facial recognition surveillance systems for transportation, event security, casinos and public spaces.
Whether it's at an entry point or in a crowd, FaceFirst reveals bad actors in real-time through instant alerts the moment a dangerous person is recognized. This helps your organization orchestrate an appropriate response and deter harm to the public at large before a dangerous person has an opportunity to act.
Analytics
FaceFirst has leveraged the Genetec face recognition capabilities of offer Genetec customers powerful face recognition analytics. Within Security Center, Genetec customers can discover which locations and individuals have visited and how often, empowering them to identify business and threat patterns that can be used to optimize security and operations.Analytics include:
Face detection from images
Face detection from video
Face tracking
Feature Detection
Face classification (gender, age, ethnicity)
Multi-face detection
Watchlist alarm monitoring
Top subjects per location
Top watchlist alarm times per location
- Top watchlist subjects across time
Example 1: Top Watchlist Subjects Across Time
Example 2: Watchlist Alarms Across Locations
Features and benefits
UNLIMITED LOCATIONS
Scale without performance loss, sharing data across unlimited locations.
ACCURACY IN THE WILD
Maintains high performance with challenging angles and lighting conditions.
CAMERA AGNOSTIC
Works with virtually any camera provider or camera-enabled device.
REAL-TIME ALERTING
Configurable and actionable match alerts using mobile push notifications, SMS and email.
PRIVACY LEADERSHIP
The industry leader in Privacy by Design methodology, best practices and thought leadership.
PLUG & PLAY
Two-Minute Deployment includes automated camera discovery, server assignments and health monitoring.
DEEP INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
FaceFirst understands and solves the operational challenges unique to retail and public safety deployments.
PERFORMANCE SPEED
Query vast databases at a rate of 75 million images in just one-tenth of a second.
CLOUD & ON-PREMISES
User-centric design empowers customers for instant success.
ENTERPRISE PLATFORM
Highly configurable and flexible platform, including both centralized and distributed deployment.
FaceFirst Platform Architecture
FaceFirst consumes camera feeds from Genetec to perform facial detection and face recognition against an authorized list or Watchlist of known persons of interest
All faces detection events are sent into Security Center with camera and time information
Upon positive identification, the following is sent into Genetec Security Center:
Real-time positive match alert details, including original enrollment and live image
Location and camera where event occurred
Time event occurred
All face recognition events can be searched and sorted by person of interest, Watchlist group, time and camera
Note: Content provided by partner.
Supported Analytics
- Facial Detection
- Facial Recognition
- Facial Detection
Geographic availability
- North America
- Latin America and the Carribean
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa
- Asia-Pacific
Industry verticals
- City-Wide Surveillance
- Education
- Critical Infrastructure
- Gaming
- Law Enforcement
- Retail
- Stadiums and Open Spaces
- Transportation
Version and ordering information
Compatibility
Genetec part number
We recommend 5 SDK connections for a Security Center integration to perform well.