IDEMIA has been selected by Aena, the leading airport operator for passenger traffic management, to be part of an innovative passenger facilitation pilot at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport.
The pilot started on December 15 with biometric technology in use on the Vueling flights for Malaga. Passengers have pre-approved access thanks to the biometric boarding facility. They can board the plane earlier and without presenting any documentation. They only need to show their face.
The biometric identification system based on facial recognition is the most convenient, hygienic, and...
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Airbus has signed a trilateral agreement with Thales and Diehl Aerospace for the joint development of the flight control computers of CityAirbus NextGen. The central flight control system of CityAirbus NextGen, the electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL) being developed by Airbus, will combine extraordinary computing power with lightweight design and highest safety standards.
Diehl and Thales are joining Airbus in investing into the emerging eVTOL market. Both partners are developing their own system that will be integrated into a dissimilar architecture to comply with the...
DSNA provides air navigation services for nine French mainland regional and several overseas centres in charge of ATC approach and tower control. The VCS system will be deployed to 14 sites located in metropolitan France (including Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Paris Orly, Strasbourg among others) and some French oversea territories. Bordeaux will be the first centre to be equipped.
French air traffic control to benefit from FREQUENTIS and CS GROUP voice communication systems in 20-year replacement program
French Air Navigation Service Provider, DSNA, awarded Frequentis and CS GROUP...
Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority has awarded Thales a contract to support the modernisation of the Greek civil aviation Navigation Aids infrastructure. This turnkey contract includes the supply of 10 Doppler VHF Omnidirectional Range (DVOR), 13 Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and 6 Instrument Landing systems (ILS). It also comprises of the installation of the instruments on 18 different sites across the country, from remote mountain peaks, to major hubs such as the Athens International Airport.
The Navigation Surveillance capabilities will ensure all-weather, en-route navigation and...
Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced that it has been recognized by Microsoft as the company’s 2021 Sustainability Changemaker Partner of the Year Award winner. The award recognizes the impact Schneider has had helping its customers set and achieve decarbonization goals using its flagship EcoStruxure™ software solutions, which are underpinned by Microsoft technologies.
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IDEMIA, the leader of Augmented Identity announced today a global partnership with Bosch Building Technologies, a global leader in the security market, to tap the fast-growing biometric access control market. According to market analysts1, this market at $1bn in 2021, will grow to $1.4 by 2024, twice the growth of traditional access control systems.
This booming market comes from the fact that a growing number of companies understand that for their security, they cannot rely anymore only on simple ID badges, that can be cloned (for older technologies still used by 44% of companies2)...
Easy, reliable, high-quality and cost-effective testing for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), in compliance with local regulatory requirements, is crucial to enabling millions of passengers to complete their journeys in comfort and safety. Eurofins has rapidly developed a broad network of around 500 testing centres across Europe and intends to have established around 1,000 testing centres by early July.
Eurofins’ network of testing centres covers major travelling hubs and provides testing accessibility in a broad variety of locations such as supermarkets, business parks and residential areas,...
Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, today announces that its ultraviolet (UVC) automatic tray disinfection solution is currently on trial at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, in collaboration with Groupe ADP, operating and developing the three main Paris airports : Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Paris-Le Bourget.
Smiths Detection’s UVC system, seamlessly integrated in existing iLane tray return system, has been trialled in Terminal 2E since September 2020. The UVC light kits are capable of destroying up to 99.9% of...
Alstef Group has been delivering innovative baggage handling technologies to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow since 2015. The airport’s latest requirement was to prepare a transit hub for Aeroflot, Russia’s largest airline, by creating a high-speed baggage transfer system to connect domestic Terminal B to international Terminal C1 known as the ‘North Hub’.
The Sheremetyevo Airport baggage system handles a large amount of Aeroflot transfer bags for passengers flying from other parts of Russia – transiting through Sheremetyevo – to reach...
Pedro Siza Vieira, State Minister of Economy and Digital Transition of Portugal, Pedro Nuno Santos, Minister for Infrastructure and Housing of Portugal, Nicolas Notebaert, CEO of VINCI Concessions and President of VINCI Airports, concessionaire of ANA, and Johan Lundgren, CEO of easyJet, celebrated today the opening of easyJet’s new base and the launch of Faro airport’s solar plant, the first in-airport solar plant in Portugal.
The base is a new illustration of VINCI Airports’ commitment towards Portugal and the Algarve region. Thanks to the 32.8M€ modernization...