There are many secured areas where airport personnel require access, such as baggage handling, runways, air traffic control centers and other secured areas. Physical access control is the most common application for biometrics at airports today. Bioscrypt's facial recognition applications work within an existing access control infrastructure minimizing costs associated with adding technology. Bioscrypt has developed applications and custom interfaces with the leading access control systems for a streamlined approach to deployment.

3D Face Readers are able to control access to secure areas while providing increased convenience, and speed. VisionAccess readers work with existing card or PIN readers for multi-factor verification and can replace existing readers to perform identification.

Advantages

"Improving airport security cannot interfere with efficient flow of personnel and passengers." This is among the key considerations driving international organizations such as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in its actions to improve airport security.

Typically, adding higher levels of security introduce additional steps that increase user throughput time. The goal of enhancing security is challenging in itself, also having to accelerate user throughput adds another dimension of difficulty for the solution.

Bioscrypt facial recognition technology utilizes distinctive features of the face to perform authentication. The 3D Images are captured in real time and focus on features where rigid tissue or bone is most apparent and less likely to change over time, which includes the eye socket curvature, nose, chin, etc. The following are some of the significant advantages that this technology enables.

• Introduces depth as a 3rd axis of measurement allowing facial angles and curves to be measured on a sub-millimeter scale.
• Not affected by lighting conditions and may even be used in darkness.
• Robust to different view angles and has the potential to recognize a subject at near 30 degrees.
• Ability to perform verification matching in milliseconds.

The points above are very important for system flexibility leading to ease of use for users of the technology. For any biometric technology there are several aspects that are required of the solution for a successful deployment. These factors include a system that requires minimal cooperation from the subject, allows for flexibility in positioning and ambient conditions, has a high level of accuracy, and is ergonomically designed to keep people moving quickly through secured areas.

Bioscrypt's 3D facial recognition technology combines high accuracy with minimal user cooperation. The technology utilizes over 40,000 points of data to create a biometric template that is unique to each individual providing for the most precise matching capabilities. The recognition process is performed extremely fast; positive verification of an individual can be accomplished in less then 1 second. The high rates of accuracy and speed characteristics of the VisionAccess solution is unprecedented and perfectly suited for Airport environments.

Solutions

The following is an example of how Bioscrypt technology can add security to airport environments.

An airport maintenance worker requires access to the runway and baggage handling areas. They would be equipped with an ID card which is part of an access control system. They would also have their facial 3D biometric stored which is linked to their Card ID number.

As the employee makes their way through the airport to the runway they would approach the secured door where a card reader and an VisionAccess face reader are mounted on the wall. The employee would swipe their card and immediately glance at the Face Reader for access. If their face matches the 3D face template linked to their ID card then they would be let through the door. If there is not a match then access would be denied.

Since the employees’ facial biometric template is linked to their ID card this solves the security issues dealing with stolen or skimmed cards. The card will only be valid when presented with the right face that matches the stored template linked to the card ID. In addition, lost cards become less of a risk for the same reason; the card will be useless unless used by the rightful owner.

Background Identity Verification

There is the possibility to keep previous employees’ biometric templates on file so if they try and reapply under a different identity they would still be linked to their biometric in the system. This makes the act of switching identities very difficult because their facial features will be on file and will be linked to their true identity.

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