New Face Recognition technology not coming to Chennai airport

CHENNAI: The neglect of Chennai in introducing the much touted ‘Paperless Face Recognition’ system by the AAI in several airports has disappointed passengers and the numerous companies managing safety at the airport in Chennai with the nearby authorities rubbing it in by saying that they have much too many other things to be concerned about now.

The new process, getting installed very first at New Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi airports, would enable passengers to wander into the airport, pass as a result of the several checkpoints and board the plane with no displaying any identification card or boarding go. They will just have to exhibit their face to the cameras mounted in the equipment concerned at various spots.

By introducing the new know-how in airports, travellers, airways, security personnel and airport authorities would help you save time and energy as the scrutiny of each and each individual passenger by safety and other staff by checking the particulars in their tickets and id cards could be performed away with.

Passengers will have to obtain the Digi Yatra app in their cell telephones, add their selfie and authenticate their individual specifics with the support of their Aadhar card ahead of entering the airport by way of the e-gate that would be set up at the airports where the technique would be operational.

Presently, an armed uniformed staff from the CISF would individually scrutinize the ticket and identity card of each passenger at the gates. Afterwards, the ticket and identity card would have to be offered at the look at in desk and also at subsequent check points. On days when a seven-tier protection blanket is thrown, passengers will be requested to generate the paperwork at unique spots, like the aircraft doorways.

Given that Chennai is also not in the AAI’s record of airports wherever the face recognition procedure would be mounted in the second period ahead of March 2023, stakeholders in Chennai are anxious and come to feel that the southern metropolis should soon have it.

In the next period, airports at Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune and Vijayawada will have the equipment installed to assist passengers have an straightforward passage to the aircraft from the gates.

Enquiries with AAI officers unveiled that they were being much too included in correcting as well many other hitches in Chennai at the moment that the encounter recognition software program was not a priority for them now. The hiccups in the freshly opened modern day parking facility with provisions for charging of e-cars and more room for cars and trucks and two wheelers will have to be ironed out first, they say.

Also the AAI is concerned about the environment up of the second airport for Chennai. While Paradur has been recognized as the location for the second airport, land acquisition, which is the initial thing to do, alone has run into troubles with folks of the 13 villages exactly where agricultural land would be taken absent are putting up a stiff opposition.

The villagers who have been consistently arranging protests and assembly in their localities at night hrs soon after returning from function have now intensified their protest by donning purple attire to express the message that they will not buckle down to strain from the authorities.     

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