Fiumicino arrives at the airport with a check in facial and a green light for liquids in the suitcase

ROME Our face will be used as boarding pass and document. And soon we will be able to leave the infamous liquids in hand luggage. Let's start with facial recognition: not in 2050, but immediately, by the end of the month, the application of the control system totally entrusted to biometrics will begin at Fiumicino airport. This is how it works: arrive at the terminal, go to the do-it-yourself machine, put the passport in the optical reader and have the camera memorize your face. From that moment, thanks to biometrics, your face applies to all subsequent steps. You no longer need a boarding pass or document. Attention: we will start, in an experimental form, with a single company (KLM) and a single destination, Amsterdam, from terminal 1, but the goal is to spread the system to all flights. Not only: between February and March, the new sophisticated hand baggage control systems should arrive, which also identify very small quantities of explosives.

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Rome, Fiumicino, the viaduct will be demolished in stages: reduced disruption to the airport

This will allow us to leave liquids in the trolley, from the bubble bath to the shampoo, but also tablets and notebooks during the checks. For Fiumicino airport, managed by Adr (a company of the Atlantia group), this is another step forward, also to confirm the recognition of the best recent European airport, aided by the flow sensor system which limits to 4 minutes the expectations. Milan is also aiming to speed up operations: Linate, recently modernized, is launching new baggage control services that make it unnecessary to extract liquids, notebooks and tablets. In summary: technology is changing our airport experience with the advent of biometrics, automatic kiosks and artificial intelligence. Italian airports are an example for a positive time, but if there is an airport that leads the way it is Singapore. In the futuristic terminal 4 – inside which there is a crazy super-screen that reproduces the facades of the Singapore of the past and which has the Jewel Changi nearby, with the highest indoor waterfall and the world – there is the path dreamed by every member: yes can completely avoid human contact. Automated check-in at the kiosk, the same for bag drop (baggage delivery), passport control, boarding, all automatic, without interactions. An appetizer of the future that was described in recent days in Lisbon, where the Sita forum (a multinational owned by 400 between airlines and airports) was held, which presented the new technologies of the sector and which drew a scenario in which we will simply travel by showing our face, thanks to biometrics, without the need to show boarding cards (even the virtual smartphone card) and documents. Here at Fiumicino this is happening and the experimentation starts at the end of the month.

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But the experts at Sita even say that they will go further: the creation of digital identity will take place at home, with the smartphone. There are those who foresee for the next few years a digital identity not linked to a single journey but recorded in the databases, which will allow us to always go up by plane without showing documents and boarding passes (obviously the problems linked to privacy and control of our movements will have to be faced separately). At Fiumicino, however, all data will be deleted after one hour. Already today, 38 e-gates used by 10 million passengers (not only from the European Union, but also from the United States, Canadians, South Koreans, Japanese, Israelis, Australians, Singaporeans and New Zealanders) operate.

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