Akuvox E16C Face Recognition Door Phone with 5-Inch Touchscreen

The Akuvox E16C is for entrances where residents or staff should walk in without a key or card. Its two 2MP cameras work together: the main camera (with wide dynamic range for bright doorways) recognises the face in about 200 ms, and the second camera checks that it is a real person, not a photo held up to the screen. Akuvox states 99.7% recognition accuracy, and the terminal holds up to 20,000 face templates.

The face is one of six ways in. The others are a PIN typed on the 5-inch 720 × 1280 touchscreen, a 13.56 MHz card, an Android phone over NFC, Bluetooth with the Akuvox app, and a QR code, which suits visitors and drivers given a one-time code. It keeps 20,000 users, cards and PINs and a 50,000-event log, so the building manager can see who came in and when.

It is also a full video door phone: visitors find a flat on the touchscreen and call it, and residents answer on Akuvox indoor monitors, SIP phones or the SmartPlus app. One relay drives the lock, and RS485 and Wiegand ports connect it to an access control system. Power is one 802.3af PoE cable or 12V DC.

The plastic housing is IP65 and 192 × 88 × 23.8 mm, for flush or surface mounting. Its rated working range is -20 °C to +55 °C, below that of Akuvox's metal outdoor door phones, so in Kuwait it belongs in a lobby, a covered entrance or a shaded wall rather than facing the afternoon sun.