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Vision-Box has secured a five-year contract with London’s Gatwick Airport. According to the terms of the Framework Agreement, Vision-Box will first replace the airport’s current legacy equipment with its Orchestra Services Platform, and then provide ongoing updates to deliver more efficient end-to-end passenger processing for the duration of the contract. The partnership will allow travelers […]
Biometrics-based expedited screening systems have continued to spread to more airports around the world over the past year. In the US these have taken a few different forms, such as TSA PreCheck, Nexus, and the expanding CLEAR program, in which travelers register their biometrics ahead of time in order to speed up the screening process […]
Vision-Box is moving forward with a pilot of its Seamless Flow One-ID platform at the Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy. The platform uses facial recognition technology to reduce the amount of time that travelers need to move through the airport. The pilot will last for a period of six months, and will only be available […]
Vision-Box is at the forefront of the digital identity conversation at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where Business Development VP Richard Camman sat on a panel that discussed ways to cultivate “A More Useful, Safe and Valuable Identity” for the digital economy. During the panel, Camman noted that air travel is expected […]
“The moratorium will be in place until the commission is able to establish concrete policies concerning the use of facial recognition.” Administrators of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, or Sea-Tac, have implemented a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology in the parts of the airport over which they have jurisdiction, putting a halt to […]
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has announced it has abandoned its plans to require U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country to submit to facial scans as an expansion of its Biometric Exit program. “There are no current plans to require U.S. citizens to provide photographs upon entry and exit from the United […]
New Zealand’s Auckland Airport has partnered with Vision-Box to automate some of its security procedures. The airport has deployed 12 new pre-security eGates that will scan passenger boarding passes before allowing them to move on to security areas. The eGates will replace the two employees who manually checked boarding passes under the previous system, and […]
China’s air travel industry is investing heavily in AI technology. According to SITA’s latest 2019 China IT Insights report, 88 percent of the country’s airlines and airports plan to have some form of AI program in the development or deployment phase by 2022, with a heavy focus on chatbots and virtual assistants. Roughly half (43 […]
It’s been another richly varied week in biometrics news, and FindBiometrics’ latest roundup of our top stories reflects that. But if there’s one theme common to all of these articles, it’s that they each reflect the dynamism and progress of the overall biometrics market as it continues to grow and its technologies continue to evolve. […]
Iberia Airlines is moving forward with a biometric boarding pilot at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport. Those participating in the pilot will be able to pass through security checkpoints and board their plane with a facial recognition scan instead of a boarding pass and a passport. The pilot will be conducted at Terminal 4, and will […]
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