Amazon on Thursday announced the release of a new app for its contactless palm recognition service, Amazon One. Customers will now be able to hold their palm over their device to make purchases at locations of their choice, including more than 500 Whole Foods Market stores and Amazon stores. 150 third-party locations.
Instead of signing up for Amazon One in a brick-and-mortar store, users can now download the Amazon One app (available on iOS or Android devices) and take photos of their palms at home. When you create an online profile and add a payment method, your palm is added to the system and can be used for payments, admission, age verification, and loyalty rewards at hundreds of stores, stadiums, airports, fitness centers, and more. Masu.
The company explains that all palm images taken through the new app are encrypted and sent to a secure Amazon One domain in the AWS cloud. Images cannot be saved or downloaded to mobile devices.
Amazon says Amazon One has been used more than 8 million times.
The app's release follows an expansion of Amazon's technology for enterprise ID purposes, which allows businesses to authenticate employees upon entry.