[INQ. NO. 2405E02] SOYNET Co, Ltd. recently participated in the 2024 World IT Show (WIS 2024) held at COEX in Seoul and introduced a cigarette-vending machine equipped with facial recognition technology.
SOYNET’s smart cigarette-vending machine applies facial recognition technology to compare and confirm the purchaser’s actual face with the face on the mobile ID, thus blocking the possibility of the illegal purchase by minors one more time at the time of the last purchase. This is the result of observing and studying how sellers visually compare ID cards with buyers during actual face-to-face sales.
The smart cigarette-vending machine that SOYNET launched this time uses the SoyFace model, which has obtained KISA bio-recognition system performance test certification, to be lightweight and accelerated using SoyNet, its AI execution optimization technology, on the kiosk’s operating board (Windows operating system, CPU environment) – and it thus can handle face detection, feature point extraction, and fake face discrimination.

This tech development has reduced GPU cloud costs, improved user experience with faster response speeds, and made it possible to easily apply the technology to other industrial areas that require AI services to run on low-end devices.
A spokesperson for the company explained, “This is the first smart cigarette-vending machine capable of facial recognition in Korea,” adding, “We have granted temporary permission through the regulatory sandbox. Once permission is granted, the user experience can be significantly modified.”
SOYNET is an AI infrastructure specialist company established in 2018. SOYNET is also developing accelerated and lightweight inference engines and MLOps as well as customer domain-based AI solutions.

 
 
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