Heathrow To Introduce Face Scanners

The UK's largest airport Heathrow will install facial recognition scanners in September in an attempt to prevent illegal immigration into the country. The passenger's face is scanned, after receiving a boarding pass and just before the security check. Before the person boards their flight, their faces are scanned again when they leave the airport waiting room.

Facial recognition scanners are to ensure that passenger board the correct flight. For example, a passenger who arrives from LA won’t be able to get hold of a domestic ticket and fly to Edinburgh.

Aurora Computer Services is the company behind the technology which is based in the UK, the company says their machines known as AIR Systems(Aurora Recognition Systems) can identify a passenger from up to 3 feet away by reading the biometric details of the passengers.