Checkpoint
Ancillaries:
enhancing the screening operation
As terrorists grow ever more sophisticated in t’s too early to assess which of the multitude
their attempts to smuggle weapons on board
commercial aircraft, industry and regulators
I
of new approaches on the drafting board
have broad enough benefits for worldwide
roll-out to become as ubiquitous as metal
detectors and X-ray scanners. At some point,
however, rather than adding new boxes and
have adapted their tools and inspection procedures to an already confusing (from
everyone’s perspective) inspection process, new
processes – somewhat unevenly – to meet the strategies, coupled with appropriate technologies
will likely be needed to enhance security and
expanding threat. Steve Wolff examines improve the passengers’ experience. Let’s
consider where the future might lead...
several different areas and technologies, in the Currently, the industry is playing catch-up with an
increasingly diverse set of threats and terrorist
early stages of being trialled and deployed at sophistication, so adding more stand-alone solutions
seems to be the short-term focus. There are four
several of the worlds’ checkpoint operations, major areas where new technology is being explored
and applied to address loopholes:
that are designed to supplement the 30-year-
circle6 niche inspection applications,
old screening process and address specific circle6 X-ray detection enhancements,
circle6 checkpoint operations improvements, and
security loopholes. circle6 system integration
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