Minsait completes the installation of biometric systems in madrid and Malaga airports

This Indra company has implemented a total of 118 systems at these two airports and, Soon, will face the installation of Ibiza. The solution consists of a passage door in which the traveler enters his ID or electronic passport, fingerprint verification sensor and facial recognition cameras.

Minsait, a company of Indra, has completed the deployment of its biometric border control systems (Automatic Border Control – ABC System) at the airports of Madrid and Malaga, this will make it possible to speed up the passage of citizens of the European Economic Area of legal age entering from third countries. Also, is expected to complete the installation of the solution in Ibiza before the end of the year.

In total, the company has implemented a total of 118 systems at these two airports, that are in addition to those previously deployed in Barcelona, Girona, Palma de Mallorca, Alicante and Tenerife South; and that allow to speed up the entire control process. The sum of all, including the port of Algeciras, that installed this system in 2015, and the next one from Ibiza airport, will reach the figure of 261 facilities.

Minsait's automatic border control systems are a solution to cope with the increase in the number of passengers registered at airports around the world, raising the levels of safety and comfort with which they move around the terminal.

This new deployment represents a technological evolution with respect to the systems that have been in operation since 2010, in terms of increased reliability of biometric checks, process security, the flexibility of the solution and an integration of components consistent with the natural flow of the traveler.

The solution is composed, Mainly, of a passing door in which the traveler enters his ID or electronic passport. Each booth has a fingerprint verification sensor and facial recognition cameras.

The system collects the information of the biometric parameters of the traveler and contrasts it with that of the electronic document, while verifying the authenticity of the same and carrying out a query to the police databases. The whole process is completed in just a few seconds and, then, the traveler can cross the border crossing gate.

These projects are part of the framework agreement for the supply of automatic border control equipment at airports in the Aena, signed with Minsait and three other companies for a lump sum amount of 90 million euro at the end of the year 2017, following the application of the regulation (EU) 2017/458 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 amending the Regulation (EU) 2016/399 as regards the strengthening of controls by checking in the relevant databases at the external borders.

Next generation of border control

Also, Minsait works on the next generation of automatic border control systems under the Smart Borders Programme (Smart Borders), Co-financed by the European Commission, and whose objective is the technological evolution of controls at the external borders to optimize transit, extending the use of automatic systems to third-country nationals and improving control over un irregular stay in the Schengen area.

Within this initiative, the company participates in the European project ABC4EU, co-financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme in which they participate 15 Partners (Industry, research centers, SMEs and end-users). Its objective is to harmonize the management of ABC systems on the continent to ensure that the traveler does not detect differences in their use, regardless of the country in which you are located or the provider that has implemented it. It also works so that any traveler can use them, regardless of whether or not it belongs to a Schengen area country.

The project has focused the action on the biometric processing of travelers through algorithms that have been validated in operating environments with real travelers, as facial recognition in motion, fingerprint verification adapted to border conditions or multibiometric combination of fingerprint and facial features.

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