NEC India deploys advanced face recognition security solution at Aero City's Lemon Tree Hotel

NEC India Pvt. Ltd., a leading network and IT solution provider, along with NEC Corporation, completed the deployment of a high performance Face Recognition Solution (FRS) at the Lemon Tree Premier Hotel in the Delhi Airport complex recently.

This is the first time that a top-end safety and surveillance system has been accepted and installed in India's hospitality sector.

The Lemon Tree Premier Hotel is located in the Aerocity Hospitality District adjacent to the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

The advanced security solution is deployed with the help of NEC's partner Target Vision, and intelligently matches faces appearing on the hotel surveillance cameras to a database list of potential security threats provided by local authorities.

Additionally, the solution can also be utilized for white list management, offering customized service to VIP guests at the hotel simply by recognizing their faces.

Mr. Koichiro Koide, Managing Director, NEC India, said, "We are excited to bring cutting-edge NEC face recognition technology to the hospitality sector in India through Lemon Tree Hotels. We have spent 30 years to bring in the level of advancement seen in this technology, which has been globally recognized for its performance and accuracy."

The strength of NEC's face recognition technology lies in its tolerance to poor quality, highly compressed surveillance videos and images.

This cutting edge technology can even use poor quality webcam images to produce the highest search results per second, and can recognize altered faces too with a high level of accuracy.

The FRS can produce search results quickly, even when linked to a massive database of over 1.6 million records.

Mr. Rahul Pandit, President and Executive Director of the Lemon Tree Hotel Company commented, "We are proud to be the first in bringing the world's number one biometric technology to the hospitality sector in India. Having 26 hotels in 15 cities across India, the safety and security of our guests is our prime responsibility, and thus, is of paramount importance to us. We thank NEC for partnering with us to provide this innovative security solution to further strengthen our already existing state-of-the-art security arrangements at our Aerocity hotels."

NEC's Face Recognition technology achieved the highest performance evaluation in the recent Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2014 performed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Moreover, NEC's technology took first place consecutively following the 2009 Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC 2009) and 2010-2011 Multiple Biometrics Evaluation (MBE 2010-2011).