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March 07, 2018
Biometric Facial Recognition Boarding Changing Airport Experience
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Facial recognition Òreally has the potential to change the whole airport experience,Ó CBP office of field operations deputy executive assistant commissioner John Wagner told the IATA Aviation Day conference in New York. CBP last year partnered with SITA and New York-based JetBlue Airways to test biometric facial recognition technology to identify passengers boarding flights from BOS to Aruba. ÒWe can confirm the passengerÕs identity in 2-3 seconds É based off airline data,Ó Wagner said. ÒYou donÕt actually have to present the boarding pass.Ó He said the aircraft boarding process is not the only place the technology could work. ÒWeÕre looking at the applicability at [US Transportation Security Administration] checkpoints [and potentially at] every place you show your ID at the airport.Ó For starters, CBP would like to expand trails to include arrivals, so that passengers arriving in the US could be quickly identified by facial recognition. At BOS, ÒweÕre cutting our processing times down by half,Ó Wagner said. ÒWe really feel this can be a springboard to change the dynamic of the international arrivals and departure process.Ó American Airlines chief security officer Jose Freig, also speaking at the IATA conference, said the industry has taken notice of the JetBlue/SITA facial recognition trial at BOS. ÒIt has been very successful,Ó he said. ÒMany of us are looking at it and saying, ÔHow can we do that as well?Õ We really do envision a day where you walk up to the kiosk and a picture is taken to identify you at every point where identification is needed at the airport. CBP has laid out the foundation for us.Ó Copyright 2018 Penton. All rights reserved. From http://atwonline.com. By Aaron Karp.
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