{"id":48758,"date":"2021-09-02T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48758"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:04:21","slug":"moscow-metro-to-roll-out-fare-payment-via-facial-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/moscow-metro-to-roll-out-fare-payment-via-facial-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Metro to roll out fare payment via facial recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 15 October, the Moscow Metro will implement a Face Pay fare-payment system at all stations. The news was announced by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin during the &#8220;New Knowledge&#8221; marathon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"713\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZCABu1fR9c0?start=2246\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The system is currently being tested on four lines of the city metro: Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya, Solntsevskaya and Filyevskaya.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;From September 15 we will double the number of stations, and from October 15 we will make the service available at all stations of the Moscow Metro,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To use Face Pay, a passenger must install the Moscow Metro app, link a bank card or Troika and upload a portrait photo. Then at a special turnstile marked &#8220;Biometric payment&#8221; the passenger should look into the camera so the system matches the photo with the uploaded image, deducts the money and allows passage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/QPB8EckGt-uVpnZOkEXLk4Us3gOneh5zngMGI9L__dMPEONHfXiDDmh3di9U5eRiWom8L3fjE9bGVKQngFfhLt_hwpqj1ez_MEkl98qABR8poPB6ePmNDvpMPZYs42qgBZ9XbhMB=s0\" alt=\"Moscow metro will launch fare payment using facial recognition\"\/><figcaption>Turnstile with Face Pay support. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rian_ru\/114361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in August<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/an-elevator-mistook-a-corgi-for-a-scooter-an-ai-algorithm-was-granted-patent%e2%80%91filing-rights-and-other-ai-news\"> in the Moscow Metro began testing fare payment using facial recognition<\/a> Face Pay.<\/p>\n<p>In February, city authorities announced plans to<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/moscow-to-install-facial-recognition-cameras-on-metro-screens\"> install a new system to track citizens<\/a> in the city&#8217;s underground.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on Telegram:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 15 October, the Moscow Metro will roll out the Face Pay fare-payment system at all stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,59,1515,1522],"class_list":["post-48758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-moscow","tag-tracking","tag-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48760,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48758\/revisions\/48760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}