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What was your company’s biggest accomplishment in 2019? Aratek’s intensified focus on product development has yielded a number of breakthroughs in 2019, chief of which is the TruFace facial matching series. The market has responded very favorably towards the TruFace line, which is positioned to fill the growing demand for facial recognition terminals that are reliable and cost-effective. Our R&D listened closely to what the customers really need, allowing us to come up with a winning feature set for TruFace: (1) Built-in HDR dual-camera system that detects ambient lighting levels and then controls the near-infrared LED accordingly. It allows high […]

How Aratek is helping to make the world a little safer Terrorism has become the scourge of the 21st century, striking fear in many parts of the world. While some countries are at higher risks of terror attacks, not one can claim to be entirely safe from this threat. As a result, a great multitude have been forced to lead their lives under constant threat, not knowing when and where the next Big One would strike. Fortunately, governments have begun to fight back. Recognizing that porous borders allow terrorists to slip in and out of countries undetected, authorities have tapped […]

The advent of mobile telephony has ushered in an era of unprecedented social and economic growth across the globe. Game-changers such as online banking, eCommerce, and social media owe their very existence to mobile telephony. Yet for all the innumerable benefits of telecommunications, one facet of it continues to plague authorities around the world – mobile phones remain to be the easiest and deadliest way for terrorists to detonate explosives remotely. In a bid to curb this malicious use of telecommunications, a number of countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia have started requiring their citizens to register […]

It’s difficult to imagine human civilization advancing as it did without the institution of banking. The convenience, security, and cheap access to credit that banks offer have powered the world’s economic engine and oiled the march of society into modernity. Yet what’s even more difficult to imagine is that some 3.5 billion people across the world are still shut out of the benefits of banking. Most of such individuals belong to low-income brackets in developing markets, although some developed countries also grapple with the problem of a large number of their citizens unable to access financial services of banks. Not […]