AI checking to go biometric

New Delhi: AI is all set to switc over to a comprehensive biometric identification system for passengers while checking-in anywhere in India, including Delhi.
The airline will do comprehensive profiling of passengers by using scientific techniques like taking their fingerprints or scanning the iris. "In a few months we will have comprehensive details of passengers at the time they check-in.
This information can be sent to any other station. This system would rule out the scope of impersonation or any fraud. We would be the first airline in India to adopt this high-tech system," airline chairman and managing director V Thulasidas told TOI.With AI adopting the system in a few months, the large number of international airlines whose ground handling it does would like to avail of the ‘foolproof' safety, said Thulasidas.
AI handles the ground and counter services for as many as 23 airlines. These include Emirates, American, Continental, Singapore Airlines, Saudia and Austrian Airways, said an official.
21/07/06 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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