2022 is upon us. It’s that time of year where we run a series of blog posts on the questions most frequently asked by you, people of the internet. Something to keep you entertained during the grey, January period.

Let’s kick this series off with a Chapter One question:

It’s quite possibly the most important question that we receive as a company. 

Facial recognition is still a misunderstood and poorly represented technology; it doesn’t receive the recognition that it deserves.

People don’t care about features.

I’ll say it again, for impact.

People really don’t care about features.

The importance of customer research during iterative, product development. The customer is (pretty much) always right.

The world is opening again, meaning business shows, conferences, and in-person pitch events are back in the corporate calendar. 

It’s ace, getting back into the habit of introducing oneself again. 

Whenever we walk into a room, met with other suited entrepreneurs and businesspeople, the standard line is played: “So, what do you do?”

We do face recognition. 

Meet SecureCall. 

The one-stop shop for securing and safeguarding online Microsoft Teams calls.

We’ve broken it down into four simple steps:

Enrolling, scheduling, recognition, and reporting.

“Every time I get a small victory, I feel like a mad scientist. Who wouldn’t want that as a career?”

Harrison, our lead developer, sheds a little light onto his career path into AI and facial recognition for students at Exeter School.

TouchByte have changed the way construction manages and optimises its workforce.

In the entrepreneurial world, we talk about prototypes a lot. A mock up. A start. A working prototype. An advanced prototype. There are plenty of them. 

 In short, they really only have one key job. To deliver value to the user in its smallest form.

Biometric technology is so incredibly powerful and technologically intricate, that we feel we ought to spend a lot of time explaining how it works. Most likely because we’re tech nerds who revel in all-things biometrics. But you, our clients, partners and end users, probably don’t care about algorithms, coding and AI.

Instead, following the wise words of Simon Sinek, we’re going to start talking about the why; why we believe in the power of AI and biometrics. And not just because of its clever features. Why it has the potential to make significant, positive change to the world around us. Why it has the potential to change the world.

Believe it or not, facial recognition isn’t just about access control - there’s a bit more to it than just entering and exiting a building. 

Want to find out more about the additional benefits, such as digitised clocking in and out and NotifyMe? Read on.

Click and Collect has seen a massive growth since the beginning of the pandemic; this market predicted to rise by 45.8% over the next five years, to reach a market value of £9.8bn by 2023. They’re not figures to be laughed at. In fact, they’re showing a very positive forecast for Click & Collect service providers.

If the last twelve months have taught us anything, it’s that protecting the ones we love should be our utmost priority. Care homes were impacted significantly during the peak of the pandemic; access control being a huge part of the spread of COVID19.

Here are TouchByte's top five reasons why you need contactless, biometric access control in your construction site. The construction industry cannot use fingerprint biometrics, as this method is now no longer COVID-secure.

Alison is TouchByte’s resident ray of sunshine and finance expert. She’s another member of the original TouchByte gang and helps to keep Jeremy on the straight and narrow.

This week, the spotlight is on Graham Love, TouchByte’s project manager and “man with a plan”.

When you think of the stereotypical entrepreneur, it’s safe to say that neither a sixty-year-old man nor a twenty-one year old graduate come to mind. It’s probably more along the lines of a suit wearing man in his mid-thirties, geared up to the max with smart watches and adorned with the latest tech. 

So, you’ve got an online training course. Regardless of whether your background is construction, health and safety, or in the legal profession, when you are participating in an online course, there’s a few things you ought to be sure of.

In these pretty turbulent times, we’re trying to encourage as much stability as possible. We here at TouchByte, are doing our utmost to ensure that as many sectors as possible can remain open.

Take the construction industry, for example. Work in this sector ground to a halt during the lockdown, as there weren’t effective safety measures in place to ensure that workers could continue working, in a covid-secure environment.

This week, we’re introducing you to the younger members of our team who play a huge role in the company. As promised, second in our ‘spotlight on’ series, is Harrison. 

We here at TouchByte think it’s vital that we amplify the voices of those who are a minority. In our case, it’s women working in the tech industry and particularly biometrics - they are few and far between.