As devotees coming to the temple complex must deposit their mobiles and electronic gadgets, facial recognition software and tools could be deployed at the pilgrimage facility centre check-in counters.
TTD Executive Officer A.V. Dharma Reddy said that face recognition technology allocate rooms for devotees in about ten minutes and eliminating the middlemen
Alibaba did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment but the Times report said the function was only used in a testing capacity and was never offered beyond that.