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New systems for passenger identification

London, UK - Optical scanners for eye recognition

Heathrow will be the first airport in the country to trial the new revolutionary eye recognition equipment, that could speed up the airport controls. The passengers will avoid the boring passport control simply scanning their iris pattern already logged in a computer. Obviously the system will be useful only after the first recording; this is the reason for which to the tests 2000 frequent flyers...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 23449
Rome, Italy, 02/08/2002 16:26
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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