Cubic examines gateless ticketing using facial recognition

Cubic explains that the paddle-based gate system can be viewed as a 'guilty until proven innocent' approach ' passage is denied by default. On proving they have the right to travel, the gates open to allow one passenger through. In a gateless system, all travellers may proceed to travel unobstructed without pausing. If facial- recognition determines that they have not registered for the service ' and are therefore 'guilty' of fare-evasion ' only then would passage be denied.

Should a face be purposely obstructed and therefore not recognisable, the system will log the incidents and create an intelligent report that shows the days, times and places where leakage occurs, allowing transport operators to use this data to predict enforcement needs.

Cubic has submitted two patents for scaling biometric information and coping with the identification of thousands of passengers each second.