The French biometrics product company Morpho (Safran) has signed a contract with Changi Airport in Singapore to supply a biometric control product to use facial recognition. This involves self-bag drop, integrated border clearance and self-boarding gates.
This is based on MorphoPass Biometric Applicant Management System and MorphoWay automated gates to support the airport’s Fast and Seamless Travel (FAST) concept for Terminal 4 which will open in 2017.
According to the product developers, MorphoPass manages the stages in a passenger’s journey at an airport, based on biometric identification. It’s claimed to make checkpoints faster and less intrusive for travellers at bag drop, airside access and passport control, as well as boarding control point. A central system that manages the passenger identification (Applicant Management) through the various identity checks needed for authentication and identification of the passenger.
Steve Lee, CAG’s Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Technology, said: “We partnered with Morpho to deploy this integrated passenger processing system with the objective of transforming passenger experience. It’s the first time that facial recognition technology will be used at Changi Airport. The solution eliminates the need for manual identity verification by staff.”
Morpho CEO Anne Bouverot added: “We are very pleased that Changi Airport entrusted us with this project after an extensive evaluation process. With Changi Airport Group, we are building the checkpoint of the future, combining the best in biometric accuracy, design efficiency and program execution. We look forward to pursing this partnership and expanding into other areas of collaborative innovation.
MorphoPass and the MorphoWay gates will be installed in Terminal 4. T4 is now under construction and should be ready in 2017. It offers an annual capacity of 16 million passengers. Changi, handled more than 54 million passengers in 2014.
