Biometric systems have been gaining traction within the travel
industry for many years.
Fingerprints and face and iris scans provide fast,
non-transferable proof of a traveler’s identity and if that person is clear to
move along in their journey – whether that means boarding a plane or checking
into a hotel.
And now due to the COVID-19 crisis, interest is accelerating in
biometric technologies since they can facilitate contactless, self-service
processing of travelers - in some cases with more accuracy than human-managed checks.
SITA’s
latest Air Transport IT Insights report, based on surveys of executives
from 200 passenger airlines and 146 airports, finds contactless processing
using biometric technology is a focus for investments.
Sixty-four percent of airports
and 58% or airlines are aiming to have automatic biometric boarding gates by
2023.
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One of the company’s providing face recognition technology is San
Francisco-based Paravision. In February the United
States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology ranked Paravision the
number one vendor from the U.S., United Kingdom and European Union and the
number six vendor globally for “identification” mode with visa and border
images.
Speaking during PhocusWire Pulse: Decoding Travel Security,
Paravision CEO Doug Aley discusses how biometrics can be used for identification
and verification in travel, the need for standards, and other industries that
are leading the way in implementation.
Watch the full interview with PhocusWire senior report Mitra
Sorrells below.
PhocusWire Pulse: Decoding Travel Security - Doug Aley of Paravision
* Other replays from the event are available here.