What is Biometric POS

Nov.10,2018Reads:

Biometric POS device is popular recently. What is the biometric POS?


Biometric POS is the abbreviation for biometric point of sale machines. A point of sale terminal (POS terminal) is an electronic device used to process card payments at retail locations. A POS terminal generally does the following: Reads the information off a customer's credit or debit card. Checks whether the funds in a customer's bank account are sufficient.

biometric system and technology

A biometric POS machine is an electronic device that combines biometric technology for personal information confirmation or supplementary payment behavior. Biometric technology uses, for example, fingerprint recognition, iris recognition, face recognition, palm recognition, voice recognition, and so on. Biometric POS, including handheld POS, Desktop POS, biometric Cash register, biometric kiosk machine, etc.


There are two types of biometric POS machines, one is the pos machine with the biometric module on the machine itself, such as Telpo TPS900 and the other is the device that can identify the biometric cards, such as the master biometric card.

Biometric fingerprint POS Device tps900

Telpo TPS900 is a biometric EFTPOS.


With the vigorous development of biotechnology and financial payment technology, biometric POS devices have derived a variety of appearances, mainly combining centralized biometric technology, fingerprint scanner, iris, face recognition, palm prints, etc.

Among the many POS terminals combined with biometric technology, the biometric fingerprint device POS is the most recognized and highly popular. For example, India has introduced payment methods that comply with Aadhaar certification. The fingerprint POS device can quickly confirm the trustworthiness and identity information of the payer during payment, realizing low-cost and fast secondary identity verification. Therefore, in some countries and regions, there will be bio-POS with fingerprint recognition and improve the efficiency of food and material distribution.



The popularity of biometric face recognition point of sale device has increased, but it is not popular. Face recognition technology has brought a new biometric recognition technology under the impetus of image processing technology, deep learning algorithm and artificial intelligence technology. The necessity of the development of face recognition payment has always been suspicion by people inside and outside the industry. Based on the uniqueness and uniqueness of human facial features, facial payment technology is both convenient and accompanied by the exposure of personal privacy. 

Alipay terminal can pay with face recognition

Alipay terminal can pay with face recognition

In China, this technology has been tried and implemented in public transportation, retail consumption, leisure and entertainment and other fields. After the bonus period of QR code payment has passed, giants such as Alipay, WeChat, and Baidu are all striving to open up new payment portals for face recognition payment methods. And what changes will this approach bring to digital financial payments? Wait and see.

Telpo C9 is multiple-payment terminal with Card and face recognition payment method.

Telpo C9 is multiple-payment terminal with Card and face recognition payment method.

The most famous representative of palmprint POS technology is Amazon. Amazon promotes its palm-print access control in its unmanned service stores. Amazon customers who have registered palm prints can quickly enter the store through contactless recognition of palm prints. And this biotechnology has been applied in retail stores, stadium events and other scenarios. Fast user biometric verification with a single swipe looks pretty cool.

How does the Amazon One device work

How does the Amazon One device work?


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Brief Introduction: Telpo is a professional intelligent terminal provider and ODM service expert. For more than 20 years, Telpo has provided professional customized intelligent hardware services to more than 1000 customers in 120 countries and regions around the world. It covers POS terminals, biometric cash registers, face recognition machines, self-service kiosks, bus ticket machines and other products.

Related products: TPS900, C9