Riding the wind of rebirth

The Clover Group has now moved its main business off campus, but the relationship between the group and the School of Computer Science and Information Technology remains very close. Without the school's background, the group would not have been able to obtain many projects.

For example, the projects of the Ship Power Research Institute and the Star Engine project—without the school's background, people wouldn't have trusted Clover Technology, a private technology company, so much.

Therefore, although many of the group's dormitories are now empty and no longer as lively as before, they are still useful and the group has kept them.

"I heard you and Xiaomiao are very busy." Feeling embarrassed, Aunt Feng said to Zhou Zhi, "You two can go about your business tomorrow. We've come over now, and we can manage to take care of Xueshan."

“Actually, we haven’t had much to do these past two days,” Zhou Zhi said. “But we really need to go to the airport tomorrow to pick up Brother Li. He has a computational model to deliver.”

Who is Brother Li San?

“It’s Li Leshui, the CEO of AXA Fund, and Zhouzi’s cousin-in-law,” Yang He explained.

"Then why do you say it's nothing serious?!" Mr. and Mrs. Feng were shocked to hear this. AXA Fund has increased its investment in China in recent years. The investments made by Zhouzhi in the major internet companies in China were all made through AXA. However, its greater reputation in China comes from the work of the Cultural Heritage Protection Fund.

This is actually one of Zhouzhi's goals. By establishing a cultural heritage protection fund and carrying out cultural heritage protection projects, he has achieved a lot. Not only has he protected and rescued many ancient sites and cultural relics in China, but his publicity effect has also far exceeded that of advertising. At least now, both Mr. and Mrs. Feng know about it.

The next morning, Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao rushed to the airport and found that not only Li Laosan got off the plane, but also their cousin Anxin.

"Why are you here again?" This was something Zhou Zhi hadn't expected.

"Hey, how dare you talk to your sister like that?" Xu Anxin reached out to grab Zhou Zhi's ear. "So what if I'm back? There are two pieces of news, one good and one bad. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"I like to hear the bad side first. I prefer to eat sugarcane backwards, bitter at first and sweet later."

"He has the bad news. You should hear the good news first." Xu Anxin didn't take it seriously. She pulled Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao into the back seat first, and let Li Laosan drive the car.

The good news is the successful development of the fingerprint access control system. Combined with the advantages of Jinan Group, it has now taken the lead in expanding into the international market and is showing good momentum.

My cousin Anxin maliciously discovered the importance of biometric technology for corporate attendance tracking.

Attendance is the foundation of modern enterprise management and an important indicator of an enterprise's management level. A fingerprint-based employee attendance system can completely solve the problem of proxy clocking that arises with traditional time clocks and IC card attendance methods, ensuring the authenticity of attendance data and truly reflecting openness, fairness, and impartiality. Therefore, it can further improve the efficiency and level of enterprise management.

Therefore, the fingerprint attendance system was not created to prevent outsiders from entering or leaving the workplace, but to prevent employees from being lazy and escaping attendance management.

Xu Anxin's statement sent chills down Zhou Zhi's spine, but he also had to admit that capitalists would applaud this system.

This is a huge application scenario. Essentially, it's about leveraging the hype surrounding smart communities to elevate the perceived quality of a property.

Since the design and selection of smart communities requires comprehensive consideration of multiple aspects such as functionality, performance, and cost, products with mature technology, high reliability, and good cost performance are usually selected.

Although fingerprint recognition technology is the most mature, stable, and low-cost among many biometric technologies, facial recognition technology is particularly suitable for promotion and popularization in smart communities.

The application of facial recognition technology in smart communities mainly involves enabling residents to perform daily activities such as parking fee payment, supermarket shopping, voucher use at consumer venues, and building access. This effectively solves the problem of residents having numerous and easily lost identification documents, which causes inconvenience, and improves community management, promoting the modernization of management methods.

Even more impressive is its status symbol. When taking visiting guests to a community restaurant on the weekend, the bill is paid simply by scanning their face on the camera screen. The guests can't help but give a thumbs up and praise, "The host has such a big reputation!"

The success of these two systems is far more significant and has a larger market share than independent fingerprint locks and fingerprint security doors. Although Xu Anxin came up with them herself, they still require the use of Clover's algorithm technology and system architecture, so they can also be considered as helping Clover Group expand its market.

Therefore, Xu Anxin came back this time to seek further cooperation opportunities with Zhou Zhi.

"Shouldn't you be using your brain to study?" Zhou Zhi looked at her cousin, who was increasingly exuding a capitalist aura and whose stance was no longer aligned with the working class she was born into. "How did you even come up with this?"

"Just tell me whether you want to do it or not?"

"Do it, of course we have to do it!" Both systems are actually inseparable from the Clover Group. First of all, the current access control system has limited storage capacity, so it can only be designed as a split system. That is to say, the camera at the door is just a feature value sampling device. The data needs to be transmitted from the access control point to the server in the central data room for feature value comparison in order to achieve low-cost implementation.

As for fingerprint locks and fingerprint security doors, that's another matter. These two types of devices don't need to store many biometric features, so storage is not affected. In addition, computing power cards have now been simplified to the size of half an A4 sheet of paper. There is enough space inside the security door to place them. Therefore, although they are expensive, they are not difficult to implement technically.

The idea is correct, and it is not difficult to implement with existing technology. The so-called fingerprint lock security door is actually just like adding a set of biometric collection devices to the door. The device is connected to an industrial control computer composed of computing power cards and memory cards inside the door. After the biometric features are collected, they are first converted into feature values ​​according to the algorithm protocol in the feature collection segment, and then the feature values ​​are sent to the industrial control computer for comparison with the feature values ​​already stored in the computer. If they match, the door lock can be unlocked.

Since cars already have industrial control computers, this system can also be used in cars.

This market will definitely become more optimistic and rapid in the future, but once the algorithms and control principles have evolved to their full potential, the future trend will simply be to make the devices smaller and faster.

For example, the hardware system that can support this system now is still a bit large, so it can only be used on gates and cars. But as the equipment becomes more sophisticated and even chip-based in the future, it can be used on mobile devices, laptops, tablets, and even handguns and glasses.

However, the algorithm and working principle will not change significantly. In other words, Clover Group and Jinan Group can enjoy the patent benefits for fifty years with their current technology.

This is indeed a great thing. (End of Chapter)