At the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Amazon’s palm-recognition technology is being utilised for the very first time as an independent payment mechanism for the first time.
As a consequence of advancements in technology such as near-field communication (NFC) and cloud computing, an increasing number of contactless payment options are becoming readily available. Amazon’s Amazon One device, which enables consumers to make in-store purchases with what amounts to a simple wave of the hand, has been available to customers for a full two years now since the company’s first launch device.
For the very first time, customers are making purchases using Amazon One in addition to other payment methods. This next weekend, visitors to the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle will have access to a variety of refreshment stations, each of which is outfitted with palm recognition and payment devices.
During the home opener for the National Hockey League on Saturday night, the Seattle Kraken will take on the Vegas Golden Knights. Spectators who attend the game will be able to pay for their food and drinks at the Modelo Cantina, the Metropolitan Grill, and 1st Ave Nachos simply by holding up their palms. There will be a total of 18 Amazon One devices in operation among the three food stalls, each of which will have one installed.
Amazon One devices are accessible in four of the stores located within the arena; however, their installation in 2021 was part of a bigger rollout of Amazon’s Just Walk Out system, so they have only been there since then. Amazon One devices and the Just Walk Out technology are now available in more than one hundred retail locations around the nation. The cashier-less “Just Walk Out” platform is being deployed for the very first time, and it is doing so in a manner that is independent of the palm-recognition payment option.
In order for a customer to use the Amazon One system, they will first need to register at a kiosk. Customers have the ability to pay for their goods using the Amazon One device by just inserting their credit card and having their palm scanned. According to Amazon, “thousands of fans” have already registered for Amazon One, and the company says that the registration process itself takes less than a minute.
The “signature” of a person’s palm, which may be seen as a kind of personal identity, can be captured by the device. During the launch event, Amazon said that their devices use a series of proprietary algorithms to generate a map of the user’s palm. Amazon will construct your palm signature by encrypting the photographs and transferring them to a “highly safe place” in the cloud. This will allow Amazon to create a digital representation of your hand. Amazon asserts that it chose palms as the biometric authenticator of choice since they need an “intentional gesture” to activate. [Citation needed] Additionally, palm identification offers a higher level of secrecy than facial recognition does since it is impossible to determine an individual’s identity based just on their handprints.
