Amazon wants to form your offline shopping experience tons more contactless. The e-commerce company is introducing a replacement biometric technology which will identify you and verify your mastercard purchases at stores by simply scanning your palm.



Called Amazon One, this technology will soon begin exposure in Amazon’s own retail stores — starting with two of the company’s Amazon Go outlets in Seattle.

 




However, Amazon says it’s getting to license the tech to 3rd parties also and expand beyond just contactless payments. With Amazon One, employees could, as an example , authenticate themselves into offices using their palms or customers could use their loyalty subscriptions at stores without the necessity to always physically carry the cards. Essentially, Amazon hopes to show your palm into an all-encompassing ID system for all of your cards and identification with Amazon One.



Amazon One are going to be available inside terminals at the doorway of stores and at payment counters. Once you've got linked your palm together with your mastercard , you'll be ready to just wave your fork over this terminal to pay. Amazon says it's for variety of unique identifiers of your palm and selects the foremost distinct ones to make what it calls a “palm signature.”



While most companies are experimenting with facial detection tech to authenticate people, Amazon says it picked palm recognition for privacy reasons as a person’s identity can’t be determined by watching a picture of their palm. On top of that, this process, unlike face recognition , requires an intentional gesture from the consumer . Amazon adds that customers also can request to delete their palm signatures from Amazon One servers.


Amazon isn’t yet saying whether it's already secured any third-party partners. But its vice chairman of physical retail business, Dilip Kumar, during a blog post, wrote that the corporate is “in active discussions with several potential customers.”


“We believe Amazon One has broad applicability beyond our retail stores, so we also decide to offer the service to 3rd parties like retailers, stadiums, and office buildings in order that more people can enjoy this ease and convenience in additional places,” he added.