Passengers flying with Cathay Pacific or Emirates to Hong Kong or Dubai from Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport are being invited to participate in a trial of a biometric system called miSense. The system captures biometric data (digital photograph, fingerprints and iris scans) and links it to data scanned in from the passenger's passport, and is designed to "fast track" participants past queues through security and boarding controls. miSense links to Advantage's Internet Check-In Scanning System (ICISS), operational at 10 airports in the British Isles including Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted. ICISS performs security validation checks of home-printed On-Line Check-In (OLCI) boarding passes.
For further details of ICISS please contact Andrew Brown (andrew.brown@advantage-business.co.uk, 01252 899636)
Link to ICISS case study on Advantage website: http://systemsolutions.advantage-business.co.uk/articles/article/2/90
Link to the miSense website: http://www.misense.org
Link to BBC News website story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6211122.stm
Published 7th December 2006
