Mobile payment has just become popular. Face payment is invented. Jinhua Bus has continuously tried to create an “Internet + bus” scenario where passengers can enjoy, and information can be exchanged. Therefore, Jinhua Bus has continuously innovated and gradually improved, becoming a model precedent for the national bus industry. Following the QR code payment, Jinhua Bus has lots of intelligent achievements. A new “black technology” will be applied to buses. At that time, passengers can use face payment.
On January 10, 2019, the launching ceremony of the Jinhua Bus Face Payment Project was held in the Jinhua Urban and Rural Bus Conference Hall. Jinhua Bus, Changyixing, Hangzhou Xiaobu, and Shanghai Kechong took the lead in innovation. It became the first bus in China to use the “face recognition” system. Based on QR code payment, face recognition was added. It can be bound with the local bank app so that citizens can enjoy a more convenient and safer travel.
The bus face recognition system belongs to the “intelligent city mobile payment system”. The exclusive on-board intelligent terminal can complete the snapshotting and uploading of images, etc. Through intelligent comparison, the snapshotted facial feature is compared with the registered user’s face in the database. Therefore, the fare will be deducted in the corresponding account after automatic analysis detection, and verification. When passengers get on the bus, they just need to show their faces in front of the intelligent bus face recognition terminal equipment. They can take the bus after the recognition is completed. Since then, passengers can not only take the bus without change, bus cards, or even mobile phones but also realize contactless payment which is intelligent, convenient, and green.
In addition, face payment can provide a safer and more secure way for families that have the elderly and children.
In addition, the family members can share one account, that is, multiple faces can be bound in one account. Especially for families with elderly children, it provides a safer and more secure way. All information can be tracked in the main account in time to protect the safe travel of the family.
In terms of smart city governance, the “face payment” system can be linked with urban public safety to collect and identify social danger personnel and take early warning measures promptly in the backend management system to help urban public safety precautions and provide better guarantees for people to travel safely. The system will also integrate the vehicle networking system to have a linkage with the vehicle environment safety monitoring and early warning system. Intelligent analysis of passengers’ speaking, actions, and other behaviors can give timely early warning of potential hidden dangers (such as conflicts between drivers and passengers, quarrels, injuries, and other serious public safety incidents) that may occur, reducing the probability of major safety accidents.