Airport Security Specialists
Airports all over the world need to reorganize and reinforce their security in terms of equipment and procedures. Airports can only be made safer through a joint commitment by the various parties including airport authorities, airlines, and all civil aeronautical authorities including the police, immigration and customs services.
Due to its strong involvement in avionics for civil aircraft, Safran Morpho is possibly the only company in the world that fully masters ICAO multi-biometric technologies (fingerprint, iris and face recognition techniques) in an airport environment. Safran Morpho cooperates with many national and international organizations that have an influence over the development of transport markets and their use of biometric technologies.
Safran Morpho is an approved supplier of the ICAO and IATA. It is one of the ACI's worldwide partners and participates very actively in the work group presided over by IATA ("Simplifying Passenger Travel") that is intended to facilitate air travel and make it safer. Safran Morpho is also a member of PROAVIA, the French association for promotion of airport equipment and services.
Access Control and Identity
Most access control systems in service use media such as contact or contactless cards or personal identification numbers (PINs). These means frequently introduce system security weaknesses, since outsiders can usurp the cards or PINs of an authorized person.MorphoSecure is an advanced access control system that eliminates the possibility of fraud by integrating authorized users' biometric data. This integrated system operates through distributed control units, based on PC technologies under Ethernet or TCP/IP. Biometric characteristics are stored either on contactless smart cards (wide range of technologies) for authentication (1:1 comparison) or in a centralized biometric database for identification (1:N "one among N" comparison).
Automated Border Control Using Biometry
MorphoTrack is an automated immigration control system that considerably reduces waiting times of "low-risk" passengers for passport checking for international flight arrivals or departures. Special smart cards or passports may be used (1:1 authentication) or not (1:N identification).Instead of a long wait to show a passport to the customs officer, checked-in passengers go through a controlled turnstile, where they are biometrically recognized (fingerprints or iris image). The average passage time is twenty seconds instead of a quarter of an hour at manual checkpoints.
Automatic Travel Document Verification Systems
Safran Morpho supplies automated travel document verification systems using biometrics. In the basic version, biometry checks are used to verify that the passenger embarking on an aircraft is the same passenger who passed through the check-in counter. In a more developed version, biometric characteristics may be compared with the characteristics in a database of wanted persons, to prevent undesirable persons from embarking.Biometric characteristics (usually fingerprints) are used between check-in counters and boarding gates, and may be either encrypted on the boarding pass (ATB magnetic strip or non-ATB 2D barcodes) or transmitted through the DCS network. In this case a temporary biometric database is necessary. This procedure is very fast and it can be done during the phase between checking in and boarding.
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Safran MorphoLe Ponant de Paris 27
rue Leblanc
PARIS CEDEX 15
75512
France
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