Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing Alejandro Gomez de Cuenca Solutions Sales Director Middle East Gemalto
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Why talk about Automatic Border Control (ABC)? Room for improvement Mainly limited to airports Myths around Automatic Border Control 4 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing
AUTOMATIC BORDER CONTROL Pros 5 17.05.2016
Reduce traveller process time and queue time Pros They introduce at least some level of verifications Effective use of floor space Release pressure for immigration authorities Additional increase of security by implementing Registered Traveller Programs (RTP) 6 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing
Pros Reduce immigration budgets & costs Cost savings to airlines with less number of flights delayed Introduce document and biometrics verification 7 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing
AUTOMATIC BORDER CONTROL Cons 8 17.05.2016
Cons Spoofing attacks Document centric approach How to gather additional information during passenger processing A one size fits all approach is not ideal 9 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing
Cons Limitations in terms of who can use the egates Processing-time difference among allowed and non-allowed travellers High increase of cost to solve exceptional problems that will affect the implementation cost of the solution Handling different categories of travellers 10 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing
Controlled and non-controlled factors that affect the performance of the ABC: Cons! Around 8-10% processing failure including Failure of the biometrics algorithms Problems during scanning the documents Not understanding the operation of the egate Documents in bad shape Traveller is an imperfect subject for database processing 11 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing
AUTOMATIC BORDER CONTROL What needs to be improved 12 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing 17.05.2016
Boost Usage Biometrics Enhancement and improvement of current biometrics algorithms in terms of speed, accuracy and implement functions to avoid spoofing Include Quality Assurance functions during the biometrics capture process Open ABC for genuine biometrics visa holders Broaden the spectrum of target travellers by adding more ergonomics in man traps for persons with reduce mobility and families Reduce as minimum traveller interaction with ABC (Walk thru approach) Better training to traveller in the usage of ABC 13 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing 17.05.2016
Traveller Risk Adding traveller profiling during ABC processing (Interpol, Control List, etc.) Proper implementation of Document Verification Advance in bilateral agreements between countries and regions for exchanging RTP data Considering a segregated 2 steps approach with self pre-clearance before accessing ABC area using kiosk for 3rd country nationals 14 Pros and Cons of a fully Automated Border Crossing 17.05.2016
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