Bengaluru: Come October, passengers taking domestic Vistara flights won’t have to show their travel documents at every checkpoint in Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) as their face will be their boarding pass.
The airport on Monday unveiled Digi Yatra — the fully biometric, paperless facial recognition technology which will enable passengers to breeze through KIA.
Passengers travelling on Vistara flight UK864 from Bengaluru to Mumbai were the first to experience the one-ID biometric platform technology, which will be expanded to all Vistara flights departing from the airport by October 2019, as part of Phase 1 of the Digi Yatra project.
After completion of the project’s final phase by early 2020, KIA has projected it will be the largest deployment of an end-to-end paperless biometric programme in Asia with over 350 passenger touchpoints at Terminal 1.
While the process is expected to be integrated with check-in and self-bag drop processes to include other domestic and international airlines, it will also be extended to the upcoming Terminal 2, said Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), operator of KIA.
In the final stage, the technology will be integrated with the Digi Yatra Central Platform that is being architectured by the Centre’s Digi Yatra Foundation.
Passengers can simply enrol with any valid government ID and biometric data, combined with their flight details, before entering the terminal. As they travel through the airport, they can put their travel documents away as they will be authenticated and verified at every touchpoint by the biometric technology.
Vistara’s Departure Control System (DCS) was integrated with the Digi Yatra technology in partnership with Portugal-based company Vision Box.
24/07/19 Times of India
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The airport on Monday unveiled Digi Yatra — the fully biometric, paperless facial recognition technology which will enable passengers to breeze through KIA.
Passengers travelling on Vistara flight UK864 from Bengaluru to Mumbai were the first to experience the one-ID biometric platform technology, which will be expanded to all Vistara flights departing from the airport by October 2019, as part of Phase 1 of the Digi Yatra project.
After completion of the project’s final phase by early 2020, KIA has projected it will be the largest deployment of an end-to-end paperless biometric programme in Asia with over 350 passenger touchpoints at Terminal 1.
While the process is expected to be integrated with check-in and self-bag drop processes to include other domestic and international airlines, it will also be extended to the upcoming Terminal 2, said Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), operator of KIA.
In the final stage, the technology will be integrated with the Digi Yatra Central Platform that is being architectured by the Centre’s Digi Yatra Foundation.
Passengers can simply enrol with any valid government ID and biometric data, combined with their flight details, before entering the terminal. As they travel through the airport, they can put their travel documents away as they will be authenticated and verified at every touchpoint by the biometric technology.
Vistara’s Departure Control System (DCS) was integrated with the Digi Yatra technology in partnership with Portugal-based company Vision Box.
24/07/19 Times of India
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