India’s HCL Technologies has launched AeroPASS, a personal identification verification (PIV) credential that is embedded with an individual’s photograph, fingerprint biometrics and PIK using digital certificate management, for expediting the passage of pilots and flight attendants through security checkpoints and into sterile airport areas.
AeroPASS was de-veloped with Daon and the airline communications firm AvFinity LLC. “AeroPASS will cost an airline’s crew members less than half that of a newspaper each day and will improve quality of life and time spent in security lines,” said Amit Gupta, vice president and global head, Transportation Vertical at HCL. “One of the most appealing aspects of AeroPASS, however, is that PIV cards are interoperable with other airports regardless of that location’s biometrics provider.”
HCL said that AeroPASS uses standards of the Biometric Airport Security Identification Consortium (BASIC), whose goal is to improve airport security through a framework that provides the nation’s airports with a biometric-enabled access control system for its tenants, including airline personnel. HCL says its solution is ready for deployment to U.S. airports. n