VISION-BOX has recently deployed state-of-the-art multi-biometric automated border clearance (ABC) eGates at Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Doha, Qatar. With 62 ‘vb i-match’ eGates, the Middle Eastern airport now has one of the largest number of ABC eGates in the world.
The HIA was designed with customer experience at the fore; the result is a world-class facility aiming to offer a seamless, memorable passenger journey. The eGates are already in use at HIA, operated by Vision-Box’s front-end border control application, the vb inspector, and integrated with the advanced identity management infrastructure of the ministry of the interior of Qatar. The Vision-Box eGates were exclusively designed to meet HIA’s design requirements. The multimodal capabilities allow for the use of face, iris and fingerprint as biometric identifiers. They ensure a speedy passage time with maximum accuracy, making sure that the border is secure and that the passenger has a pleasant experience.“The Middle East continues to represent an enormous potential,” says Jean-Francois Lennon, director global business development, sales and marketing at Vision-Box, “We’ve been witnessing an outburst of initiatives by governments, airports, airlines and the private sector, adopting digital identity as a means to improve security and efficiency, and also to provide value-added services to their citizens. We look forward to further contributing to their success, both through on-going identity management programmes and other GCC initiatives, by continuously delivering stunning innovation and investing in local resources.”