Let's talk about airports, security and baggage: the new way of doing business has also arrived in Italy check in. Is called check-inshadow and a few days ago it made its appearance at Fiumicino airport, while it will arrive between this year and the next also in Linate and is based on the biometric recognition.
By the end of the month, who will board the flights Klm Rome-Amsterdam you will be able to experience the latest generation of boarding, where the fundamental will be face recognition.
That is, passengers will not have to show the identity document and ticket, with a considerable saving of time for the checks, which will thus be faster.
Biometrics is a technology widely used abroad and finally arrives in the experimental phase also in Italy where, once all the issues and details have been ascertained, especially regarding privacy, it will prove to be a revolutionary tool for passengers in transit from our airports.
But how does it work?
A camera captures the main points of the face and validates the identity by crossing the data of the travel document (the passport in particular) and the flight booking. Then the system generates a "token», A temporary digital key that allows the face, which in the meantime has passed the scrutiny of the local and international police databases, to pass through the gates, stopping for about 20-25 seconds in front of the cameras at the three" hub "points.
This type of control, it has been ascertained, has a very low margin of error, even if it must be optimized especially for some ethnic groups that have shown anomalous values that must be resolved.
The "token" with the sensitive information of each embarked person will be deleted from the servers after about an hour, while in some cases, the retention could last a year.
News also with regard to baggage: if first crossing the security gates constituted a real trauma due to having to take liquids, laptops, tablets or cameras out of the bags, now, thanks to the new active X-ray machines already at Malpensa for example, it is possible to carry out a real Tac to the contents of the trolley to take on board. The software, in a few seconds, is able to detect any anomalies and transmit them to the operator.
In short, with the new way of carrying out checks at the airport, it will be much more difficult to see long queues of passengers waiting to board.
