Leading Biometric Solutions

ICU Intelligent Identification performs non-intrusive facial analysis technology
for age verification & face recognition

Our Products

ICU Pro

Integrate into a door access system for controlled entry to buildings. Never forget your key or pass again, your face is all you need! ICU Pro uses facial recognition to automate access control to buildings and machinery.

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ICU Lite

Integrate into a machine to automate age restricted sales at a self-service checkout or prevent underage gambling at a gaming machine.

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MyCheckr

An all-in-one device that performs anonymous age estimation to assist with the sale of age restricted goods such as alcohol and tobacco.

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Applications

ICU can benefit a vast number of industries. Customise facial recognition, age verification and gender identification functions to fit your application

Age Restricted Sales

Recommended Product: ICU Lite

Improve efficiency and free up checkout attendants with our leading age verification technology.

Protect children from harm
Shield staff from abuse
Prevent public nuisance and disorder
Speed up transactions
Efficient use of resources
Totally off-line (ICU Pro & ICU Lite)
Unlimited age estimations without recurring fees

We are proud to be part of the Age verification technology in alcohol sales: regulatory sandbox

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Access Control

Recommended Product: ICU Pro

Allow only authorised persons to enter
Contactless entry
Reduce costs
Efficient use of resource (staff deployed elsewhere)

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Photo ID Verification

Recommended Product: ICU Pro

Combine ICU with an existing document scanner or RFID reader.

Verify ID photo matches user (passport, driving licence, ID card)
Add an extra layer of security
Multi-factor authentication
Face match 1:1 comparison
>99% accuracy
Quick <1 sec
Online ID verification

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Face Covering Detection

Recommended Product: ICU Pro

Do your premises require face coverings for entry?

Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic
Detect face coverings
Allow entry or reject if not worn
Monitor customers and staff who are entering
Real-time response
Alerts for non-compliance
Allow safe entry
High accuracy

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Targeted Advertising

Recommended Product: ICU Lite

Do you want to target your advertising to specific demographics?

Display appropriate advertising
Digital signage
Targeted by gender and/or age
Privacy assured (NO images or personal data stored)
Totally anonymous
Works off-line
No recurring costs
Real-time response <1 second

Our Technology

ICU's core objective - to provide affordable and easy to use biometric technology

Proprietary Algorithms

We design, train and fine-tune all our own algorithms.
All algorithms run locally on the hardware – quick, no internet required (ICU Pro & ICU Lite)

ICU utilises our own algorithms, to recognise faces and verify age. We do not use publicly available databases for training or tuning like many other systems, favouring our own extensive datasets especially chosen to reduce gender and skin tone bias. Our algorithms are not publicly available, which makes our system, and customer data more secure.

In the case of age estimation for example the model is trained using millions of images of faces with known ages. The algorithm analyses the features of the person and associates that with the known age. In doing so, the algorithm essentially learns what feature a subject typically has for a certain age. So, when a new image is presented to ICU, the algorithm analyses the features, and from what it has learnt, estimates an age based on what age it has associated with those features.

Edge Solution

Complete intelligent solution
Local processing
Quick outputs

Our edge solution gives customers an immediate response. Both age verification and facial recognition technology processes are performed locally giving a more reliable output and faster response.

An internet connection is only required for initial set up and updates which are free for the first 12 months.

Non-Intrusive Spoof Detection

Multi-layered spoof detection
No customer interaction required

ICU constantly monitors the user in front of the camera. Our specially trained algorithms can detect photographs and videos/images on mobile devices to prevent fraud attempts. Our spoof detection is non-intrusive and takes place in the background throughout the operation without affecting the user experience. Spoof alerts can be remotely monitored and remotely overridden if determined to be a genuine transaction.

ICU Management Suite (IMS)

Configure both ICU Pro & ICU Lite

via your online dashboard

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Independently certified

Proud members

Conforms to

Labeled Faces in the Wild

National Institute of Standards and Technology

FAQs

Our Frequently Asked Questions

What is ICU?

ICU utilises Facial Recognition technology to provide useful tools for end users. The core objective for ICU is to provide affordable and easy to use technology that can be easily integrated to meet the customers own needs. ITL design and build all the software and hardware relating to ICU.
ITL provide the tools for easy customisability so that a vast array of applications can be provided for.

The ICUs can operate completely independently and off-line or alternatively ICU Pros (hardware) and/or ICU Lites, can be combined and managed via an Online Management Suite.
What is edge technology?

Edge technology refers to alogrithms which run locally on specially designed hardware. The processing is done on the local hardware and not on a cloud based platform.

This has many advantages, among them are:

1) Speed – no data is sent over the internet to get processed. All the processing is done on the local hardware.
2) No internet required – since all processing is performed locally, the edge hardware can operate completely off-line.
3) Security – since no sensitive data is sent over the internet there is no chance that this data can be intercepted
What is the advantage of using your own algorithm?

There are many advantages to using our own algorithm. This covers both performance and security aspects.

When building our own algorithm we can ensure the algorithm is optimised to run on our own bespoke hardware (edge solution).
Using our own algorithm also means we have the opportunity to find weaknesses and improve performance. This may be acquiring better training data, employing different models or tuning the algorithm more effectively.

When algorithms are publicly available (open source) then they also become a security risk, as people can access the algorithms and probe for weaknesses, which they may then use to exploit your system.
How accurate is your age estimation?

We have built, trained and tuned our own age estimation algorithms using our own training datasets.

Combining a multi-layer intelligence approach with a wide and diverse range of training data results in world leading age estimation. The ICU has obtained independent certification (ACCS 1:2020 Technical Requirements for Age Estimation Technologies) that confirms that ICU can be confidently deployed in a Challenge 25 scenario.

The independent test results show that ICU on average underestimates 18-year-olds by 0.19 years and has an MAE (Mean Average Error) of 1.22 years.

https://www.accscheme.com/registry
Where is the best position for the camera?

While the performance is directly related to the specific camera in general:
• It is recommended to operate with Light levels from 70 lux (low level sodium bulb) to 1500 lux (bright LED gantry).
• The ICU will work in sunlight (>1500lux) if the camera is positioned to avoid direct glare.

See Camera Setup

The performance of the ICU Pro/Lite is related to the quality of the image provided. A live view of the image can be viewed to ensure maximum quality for setup.