CyberLink Corp. announced Japanese Digital Key Platform CompanyBitkey Inc. (Bitkey) has adopted FaceMe AI Facial Recognition into its Platform for managing digital keys solution. The integration provides facial identification, authentication and access control for multiple use cases, including smart access to buildings and smart security. Bitkey, founded in 2018, is a Japanese startup that provides various smart lock, smart access and security solutions for homes and buildings. The new Bitkey platform was designed to enable contactless facial recognition to identify individuals and enable secure entry for homes, offices as well as admission tickets at concert venues. At this stage, the technology was first deployed in an apartment building in the Koto District, Tokyo city. Residents can use their faces as keys to safely enter the house, eliminating the inconvenience of using security cards or traditional keys. Bitkey platform is powered by the CyberLink FaceMe AI facial recognition engine. FaceMe supports a wide range of IoT/AIoT technologies and platforms, such as CPUs (Intel CPUs, supporting OpenVINO and ARM CPU), AI vision processing units (Intel Movidius) and IoT platforms (Nvidia Jetson). For IoT/AIoT applications, FaceMe can run on light-weight, low power consumption platforms, facilitating developers’ deployment of facial recognition across different use cases.