High-tech equipment will be introduced in the battle to eradicate the trailing "toilet paper thief"

Even in the Japanese public toilet, there may be a notice to prevent toilet paper from being stolen, "Do not take the toilet paper back home", but Japan is not the only one struggling with toilet paper thief It seems that in China, a high-tech device with face recognition function is introduced to counter toilet paper thief, and a fierce battle with thieves is spreading.

China's High-Tech Tool to Fight Toilet Paper Bandits - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/world/asia/china-toilet-paper-theft.html

China is fighting toilet paper thieves with facial recognition software - The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/20/14986640/china-toilet-paper-theft-facial-recognition-machine

ChineseThe templeIt is said that a toilet paper thief of the devil's coming will come to the public toilet in Thieves seem to look like ordinary citizens who came to the park to practice Tai Chi, but in fact it seems that they steal a lot of toilet paper in an oversized shopping bag or rucksack. To counter such a toilet paper thief, the local authorities in Beijing have installed a high-tech toilet paper dispenser with a face recognition function in the public toilet.

To use toilet paper at a public toilet with this high-tech toilet paper dispenser installed, you need to look at the equipment attached to the wall for 3 seconds before entering the private room. Then, 2 ft. (About 61 cm) of toilet paper will come out so OK if you use this. However, since this toilet paper dispenser provides toilet paper only once every nine minutes for the same person, even if it is recognized as "the same person" in the face recognition function, even if it says "I want a little more toilet paper" You will have to wait in front of you.

You can see how the toilet paper dispenser actually installed in the public lavatory in Temple of Heaven Park works with the following GIF image.


Temple of Heaven Park, one of the famous sightseeing spots in Beijing, announced that many people are pleased to introduce toilet paper dispensers. He Zhiqiang, a worker from Ningxia Hua Autonomous Region in the northwestern part of China, said, "Toilet paper thief is greedy, since toilet paper is a public resource, we need to protect it from the hands of the thief."

Of course, not all public toilet users are welcoming the toilet paper dispenser, some people hit the equipment with dissatisfaction with the introduction of the equipment, others say that "the toilet paper coming out is too short" I will. According to Temple of Heaven Park staff, the price of one toilet paper dispenser is about 720 dollars (about 80,000 yen).

In China, the toilet paper stolen problem occurring at the public toilet is serious, and many toilet paper is not installed in many public toilets. Although he seems to have installed toilet paper in the public toilet in the Temple of Heaven Park for the past 10 years, most of it seemed to have been stolen soon, so the criminal was not only tourists but local residents is.


Lei Zhenshan, a marketing director at Tianjin company that developed toilet paper dispenser, said, "We brainstormed a number of options such as fingerprints, infrared and face authentication, and most I decided to use face authentication to make it hygienic. " According to Zhenshan, the initial model of the toilet paper dispenser is familiar with the nickname "bird's nest"Beijing National StadiumIt seems to be installed in. If the installation of the toilet paper dispenser installed in a part of Temple of Heaven Park gets popular, we plan to install the equipment in all the public toilets in the park.

On social media, some users are criticizing "waste of money" and the setting of a toilet paper dispenser, and there are other opinions that "it is not suitable for the Temple of Height that is also registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site" There is. However, as many stakeholders in the Temple of Heaven Park and many citizens agree, the toilet paper dispenser seems to play a role in eradicating "a toilet paper thief who is constantly going after the heaven".