Palm recognition for schools

Most schools still rely on access cards, turnstiles, or oral roll-call to track attendance. Each of these methods has a structural problem: cards get lost or shared, turnstiles treat students like units of flow, and oral roll-call burns minutes of class time while putting students on the spot in front of their peers.

Autenti.ca takes a different approach: students enter school by showing their palm. Recognition takes under three seconds — no touch, no card, no queue. And what happens next is what changes the experience for the entire school.

From turnstile to recognition

Turnstiles and cards were designed to control flow — not to recognize people. Palm biometrics does the opposite: it identifies who arrived, confirms with an audible and visual “ping” on the kiosk, and logs attendance automatically.

No oral roll-call. No queue at the entrance. The student simply arrives, holds up their palm, and walks in.

O Pulso: the school in real time for the principal

As soon as attendance is recorded, it appears in O Pulso — the management dashboard. The principal sees, in real time, which classes are at full attendance, who is arriving late, and what the school’s overall engagement looks like for the day.

Calm enough to show a parent at a meeting, detailed enough to inform a conversation with a teacher: the dashboard brings everything together at a glance, with no manual reports needed.

The family as a safety net

Autenti.ca does not send a notification for every arrival — that would just be noise. The system alerts the family only when something falls outside the expected pattern: if a student hasn’t registered their attendance by the school’s defined cutoff, their guardians receive a WhatsApp message.

It’s a safety net, not surveillance. Families stay informed without having to monitor every move.

The same palm in the cafeteria

The palm that opens the door also pays for lunch. The family tops up a wallet in the school’s system; the student pays by holding their palm up to the cafeteria reader. No cash in pockets, no card to lose, no queue.

Attendance with motivation: gamification

Every registered arrival earns points for the student’s class. Classes compete in live rankings — and the “ping” of recognition is the signal that the point was scored. Read more about how this works in Gamification for attendance.

Privacy: LGPD, consent, and data that can’t be reversed

The stored biometric template is irreversible — it cannot be reconstructed as a palm image. Enrollment is opt-in: the school collects family consent before registration. The system is designed to ISO/IEC 24745:2022 and is aligned with LGPD and GDPR.

Minimum data, maximum care.

Next step

Want to see how palm recognition would work at your school’s entrance? Book a demo — we’ll show you the system live and answer questions from your educational, technical, and legal teams.