Electronic gate helps to identify faces accurately

A Silicon Valley-based company Aoptix has just introduced a new electronic gate (e-gate) capable of recognizing passengers' faces and irises before opening them to the plane.

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'This is the technology we call the future of boarding passengers,' said Brian Rhea, AOptix's director, when the new InSight Duo portal was put on trial at the national airport. San Jose in Northern California.

'Airlines are very concerned about security issues and are always looking for ways to make sure the boarder is exactly the person whose name is on the boarding pass,' he added.

Electronic gate helps to identify faces. (Source: physorg.com)

AOptix's e-gate portal has the ability to identify identities based on iris scanning used at airports in England and Qatar as well as a high-security facility in Washington, DC.

The newly promoted system is the first device to add face detection capability to iris scanning, which is unique to each person.

'Customers require photographing face with iris. There are many concerns, especially at immigration or border gates, ' Rhea said.

Registrants look quickly at the scanner to map the face and eyes in seconds. Biometric data stored on the computer is synchronized with the barcode on the boarding pass or other documents.

Anyone who wants to board the plane must place a card on the reader at the e-gate and look at a nearby screen to check whether the iris and face match, in accordance with the record. The security gate is only open to those who have absolute matching details.

'The iris is a better identity than fingerprints,' Rhea said. However, if you have information that matches both the face and the iris, it is an effective system, he added.

AOptix, founded by astronomers about 11 years ago in Northern California, combined biometric scanning technology with a boarding gate built by German company Kaba.

The company said it was aware of the need to combine face-eyebrow recognition systems from officials operating high-security buildings, airports or border checkpoints.

'From an airport's perspective, we definitely support technological advances that can make it easier for passengers and airlines,' said David Vossbrink, San Jose's communications director. .

'We are very excited when companies from Silicon Valley like AOptix can make a new step so that all travel companies can benefit from it,' he said as he watched the experiment. e-gate.

The portals will help passengers bypass normal security check procedures at airports like today.

'There will always be a need for physical screening measures, although this progress may make it easier to check IDs,' Rhea said. Airlines tend to retain biometric data for a short period of time and abolish when flights are completed and that data is no longer needed for security checks.

The database of faces and irises connects to Dou e-gate at locations such as border checkpoints or building entrances that need security inspectors.

Finally, if someone was expelled from England for any reason and was trying to return to the fake file, the iris information from the deportation would reveal his intentions.