Look what it has come to: Checking your digits, irises at the airport
Submitted by MichaelVail on Thu, 12/07/2006 - 5:33pm.
ZDNet
Posted: Dec 7, 2006
Posted: Dec 7, 2006
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To register for miSense, passengers must undergo an enrollment check at Heathrow where their passport is checked, identity verified and
A digital facial image is also taken, along with iris scans of both eyes (pictured). The whole process takes about five minutes and the biometric information is uploaded onto the chip of a miSense "membership" smart card. The card is activated 24 hours later, after further background checks to verify the identity of the person.
Those with miSense cards can use a dedicated self-service check-in kiosk for Emirates or Cathay Pacific airlines in Terminal 3 at Heathrow. A fingerprint scanner on the kiosk verifies the person against the details on the card and then issues a boarding pass.For those without a card, the miSense kiosk scans and records the passenger's passport and right index fingerprint and then issues a boarding pass.
Instead of the passenger's boarding pass being manually inspected before entering the security check area, an automated gate scans the right index finger and the boarding pass--and opens the gate if the two match.
While the British Airports Authority claims the system could help passengers avoid long queues at the airport, they still have to queue up with everyone else at the usual security check airport bottleneck.
An automated barrier also reverifies the identity of the passenger with a fingerprint scanner at the boarding gate.
One aim of the trial is to test the feasibility of advanced
One area where
Cyrille Bataller, biometric specialist at Accenture, said that
Accenture is one of the tech companies behind the project. Other tech companies involved in the miSense project include IER, Raytheon Systems, Sagem Defense Securite and airline IT body SITA.
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