Face as an admission ticket to the flight

The camera watch, please. Brisbane Airport tried biometric facial scans. So, passengers will be faster in the plane.

The Brisbane Airport is a step into the future. He tests biometric facial recognition in conjunction with Air New Zealand and the aviation computer science specialists SITA. It enters the passenger at a machine at the time of check-in its data and scans documents and face. Passport photo and Gesichtsscan fit together, he can use an automated gate without again to show his documents.

SITA procedure is called the new smart path. Air New Zealand passengers are the first that test's at Brisbane Airport. "There are already plans to expand the service to more international airlines in the coming months", as SITA in a release.

Test in Amsterdam

Roel Hellemons, Manager for strategic planning at the airport, said: «In the process we try to integrate various systems of Government for immigration and border control.» We hope with the new system more efficient and safer to make the standard check-in and boarding processes in the near future. According to SITA, the technology throughout the airport can expand to include all processes and check points that require the document checks.

Airport Amsterdam Schiphol and KLM test also biometric boarding. In a communication of the airport in February was a Short paragraph also data protection: "to protect the privacy of personal information be used only for the test. The data will be automatically deleted after boarding», they said. The topic is no mention of the SITA communication to the Brisbane Airport.

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