Chinese school stops using facial recognition gates at peak times after complaints about queues
- Middle school on tropical Hainan Island is the latest to use the technology, which it says will ‘make it safer for pupils to enter and leave campus’
- But students say it doesn’t always recognise faces and they have long waits to go through the system at the entrances to two huge dormitories
Haikou Experimental Middle School put the system in place at the entrances to its dormitories in late April after “getting positive feedback from students and parents” about the same equipment installed at the school gate since December, Nanguo Metropolis Daily reported on Tuesday.
“The school is using big data to make it safer for pupils to enter and leave the campus and to improve its management,” Wu Tailin, the school’s moral education director, was quoted as saying.
But students at the school on tropical Hainan Island said the new system sometimes meant long waits to get back to their rooms.
They said the technology did not always recognise faces, and there was only one gate at each entrance to two huge dormitories that housed about 1,900 students in total.