News: Automated passport checks to be extended in Germany
The interior ministry of Germany announced that automated passport checks are to be extended to more airports
- The system to be used is the EasyPass Gates system.
- Travelers are automatically checked for height and a picture of their face is taken.
- The picture then is checked against the electronic record stored in the passport, comparing the biometric features.
- On biometric match, the passenger may pass without further contact with the border agents.
- The core technologies used are biometric facial recognition and RFID of the passport.
- No previous individual enrollment of the passenger is required.
- After the system has been used in Frankfurt am Main, the airports of Hamburg, Berlin and Duesseldorf are to be added to the program.
- The EasyPass system was developed by L1 Identity Solutions which is now part of Morpho, a subsidiary of the Safran S.A, a french multinational defense and aircraft technology provider.
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