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curb
through the
boarding gate.
Jan/Feb 2019 - Edition 40
Technology up-
grades are a ma-
jor piece of any
solution.
Solutions
New technology Every iris has 240 points of recognition, is unique and
has reduced the remains unchanged during a person’s lifetime.
need for manual inspections ger be counted on to reliably
determine identity.
identity .
of carry-on luggage.
However, those improvements
have done nothing to speed
passenger transit through
ticketing, bag drops and secu-
rity checkpoints.
checkpoints .
Biometrics , however, can pro-
Biometrics,
vide highly accurate ID au-
thentication very quickly.
quickly .
That’s why more major air-
Biometrics (iris, fingerprint ports around the world are al-
ready installing biometric
and facial recognition) can be
solutions..
solutions
a game changer.
changer .
A TSA agent looking at a passen- The number of biometric units
ger’s driver’s license with its being used is expected to dou-
aging photograph
photograp h can no lon- ble by 2022.
2022 .
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