In fact, UnionPay has been trotting to follow up on the way to pay by face. UnionPay officially announced that UnionPay cardholders can experience the payment service by swiping their faces in many supermarkets in Beijing and Shanghai. Cardholders do not need to carry a mobile phone and can directly pay by swiping their faces. It is foreseeable that in the future, with the further expansion of the face payment market, more people will enjoy the dividends of face payment. The face payment industry is bound to usher in a new climax of development. We look forward to the fact that face payment will bring us More surprises.
The UnionPay facial payment solution debuted in the self-service industry for the first time, promoting the implementation of facial payment scenarios in a broader consumer environment. In addition to catering, ticketing department stores, retail and other scenes, UnionPay's face payment is deeply rooted in colleges and universities. Currently, it has cooperated with more than 1,000 colleges and universities to comprehensively deploy face payment.
Data shows that the number of China UnionPay's cloud QuickPass app users exceeded 200 million, and the number of cloud QuickPass app users continued to grow rapidly. In addition, Alipay and WeChat, which are giants in the payment industry, have also been making efforts in the field of facial payment. Face-swiping payment, smart medical care, smart campus, smart bank, catering, supermarket, hotel, non-sense parking lot, various scene solutions, software customization development, payment equipment wholesale, please Baidu "Zhangyou Electronic Wei" for details
Alipay launched the Dragonfly series of facial payment devices, which greatly reduced the cost of merchants accessing facial payment. Dragonfly II was born and announced that it would invest 3 billion yuan in subsidies for facial payment. In the near future, Alipay launched the Dragonfly Plus integrated machine and the Dragonfly Extension split machine. At the same time, the upper limit of 3 billion subsidies was cancelled and changed to unlimited subsidies. This time ignited the flames of war in the facial payment industry, and Alipay began to enter the field of facial payment across the board.
WeChat launched its own face payment product Frog against Dragonfly, and launched an upgraded and revised new generation face payment product Frog Pro in August, and claimed that it will provide a 10 billion subsidy to face payment, which also caused A climax in the face payment market. With the entry of the three giants one after another, the face payment industry has shown a three-pronged situation.
Face-swiping payment solves the pain point of scanning code payment that requires mobile phones as the carrier. In mobile payment, biological payment, with its uniqueness and irreplaceability, is gradually replacing traditional financial payment tools and leading the future payment settlement model. The core technology of mobile payment-derived facial payment is the facial recognition technology in artificial intelligence, and facial payment is also a natural trend.