SubscribeIn 2004, Air France launched the “P.E.G.A.SE Project” (Experimental Programme for Automated Border Control).
This consists of evaluating future technologies and procedures applied to border crossings. The SNG 770 high-security automated interlock door developed by Automatic Systems was selected to meet this need.
Wishing to simplify passengers' lives and comply with safety and security standards, the French airline has become a pioneer at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport by offering its customers "e-services": electronic ticket, home check-in via Internet, self check-in at the airport, fast drop-off of luggage, and also self-boarding field trial recently started with automatic systems self- boarding gates. The aim is to reduce and accelerate the procedures with regard to security instructions as much as possible both for the company's customers and its staff.
Air France's know-how in terms of innovative project management and testing of new technologies led them to launch the P.E.G.A.SE experiment. The French airline launched the Automated Border Access Control service, based on fingerprints aiming at offering new facilities to its frequent travellers.
The passengers first have to check in with the airport authorities. They receive an identification card which authorizes them to access the full automated service. While using the high-security automated interlock door designed by Automatic Systems (SNG770) and thus avoid queuing and annoying waiting times associated with manual immigration procedures.
This equipment meets extremely high security imperatives. It filters each passenger and guarantees that each person transiting from a public area towards a secure area is duly authorised to enter it. It is an effective ally against intrusion, which in this context is nothing other than illegal immigration. It complies with the new safety standards such as EC 2320/2002. Permanent control is imposed: no unauthorised person can enter limited access security areas, and no prohibited item can be brought into them.
The SNG 770's safety is ensured by impervious physical obstacles, reinforced by the electronic ASDAS solution (Automatic Systems Detection and Analysis Solution). Its "one-person-only detection" determines that only one person is in the portal. This control is triggered when the entrance threshold is crossed. The ASDAS technology mainly uses traditional, tested and simple detection technologies (infrared cells). ASDAS can, for example, detect if the person is accompanied by a young child or whether that person is pulling or pushing a suitcase on wheels.
The ASDAS system has been designed in such a way that it can be adapted to all sorts of passage that could be encountered. It is therefore upgradeable thanks to its layered software architecture and the possibility of adding new sensors.
The SNG interlock door is also extremely safe. Among its main characteristics, we can list:
- The doors and the sidewalls have no potentially harmful edges
- The closing door edges are equipped with a flexible silicone strip
- The intensive use of glass eliminates the feeling of confinement and offers surveillance possibilities from the outside.
