London’s Heathrow Airport is undertaking the world’s biggest single deployment of biometric technology, installing a permanent £50m ($65m) facial-recognition system that will enable departing passengers to pass through every stage of the airport without needing to show passports or boarding passes. The system, which has been in operation since last year, uses facial scans and iris scans, as well as fingerprint scanners, to identify people entering the terminal at Heathrow.
London’s Heathrow Airport is undertaking the world’s biggest single deployment of biometric technology, installing a permanent £50m ($65m) facial-recognition system that will enable departing passengers to pass through every stage of the airport without needing to show passports or boarding passes. The tech is expected to reduce the time required to pass through the airport by up to a third.