Transportation & Immigration
Fast, contactless verification for airports, seaports, and borders
Passenger volumes keep climbing while check-in, security, baggage, immigration, and loyalty touchpoints still run on legacy processes – and airports have to control staff access and aging infrastructure at the same time.
Iris ID has decades of aviation and border deployments in the United States and internationally. The identity check is touchless, accurate across demographics, and already running in e-gates, kiosks, and immigration lanes.
Traveler sentiment on biometrics
Passengers who use biometrics report high satisfaction when processes are fast and touchless.
75%
Travelers worldwide say biometrics would simplify airport processes (IATA 2022)
88%
Satisfaction among travelers who have used biometric identification
35/min
Passengers authenticated per minute at FIFA World Cup 2022 Salwa border crossing
#1
NIST March 2022 single-eye FPIR performance for Iris ID’s algorithm
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Proven at Global Checkpoints
Hamad International Airport and Qatar border points authenticate millions of travelers annually with iris technology – including 150,000 passengers at the Salwa crossing during FIFA World Cup 2022 at roughly 35 passengers per minute.
Amsterdam Schiphol’s Privium program clears Dutch citizens and members through customs in 15 seconds or less and extends the same technology to lounge access. CATSA’s RAIC program pairs cards with biometrics for airport restricted areas; CLEAR uses iris and face at more than 54 U.S. airports for expedited security.
Speed, Accuracy, and Inclusive Design
Iris recognition works across gender, age (typically 12 months and older), glasses, facial hair, masks, hats, and hijab or niqab – travelers identified as they are, without removing clothing or touching shared surfaces.
NIST testing published in March 2022 ranked Iris ID first in single-eye false positive identification rate (FPIR), with strong overall accuracy, search speed, template generation speed, and compact 512-byte encrypted templates that cannot be reconstituted into eye images.
Privacy and Touchless Travel
Capture is comparable to a digital photo of the iris pattern converted to an encrypted template – no lasers or bright lights, and essentially non-contact at the gate.
Biometric education and thoughtful privacy regulation will shape adoption; iris templates afford high-level defense against identity theft when programs are designed with clear data governance.
Deployment Flexibility
Iris ID supports kiosks, e-gates, immigration counters, border lanes, and staff RAIC-style programs – the same modality for passengers and authorized personnel.
Programs can expand from border clearance to lounge access, loyalty, and venue entry where partners such as CLEAR have extended iris recognition beyond airports.
Aviation and border benefits
Speed and accuracy
High throughput with NIST-verified matching performance for border and aviation programs.
Bias-free identification
Works with glasses, masks, and hijabs – accurate for every traveler as they are.
Privacy-safe templates
Identity is stored as a compact encrypted template, not a photograph.
Fully contactless
No documents to hand over and no PIN pads at the checkpoint.
Staff and passenger programs
One technology family for RAIC-style worker access and traveler clearance.
Global reference deployments
From Schiphol Privium to HIA and CATSA – proven at the world’s busiest flows.
Products for transportation & immigration
Hardware and matching software for airports, borders, and port authority programs.
IrisAccess iA1000
Checkpoint & staff access
Multimodal reader for secure airport zones, e-gate lanes, and high-throughput entrances.
• Contactless iris–face fusion
• PAD for spoof resistance
• Integrates with existing access infrastructure
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iCAM D2000
Enrollment & verification
Dual iris capture for immigration enrollment, border processing, and program onboarding.
• Fast dual iris enrollment
• Field and counter deployments
• Supports large program scale
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IrisAccelerator 2
Cloud-native high-speed matching
Cloud-native 1:N iris and face matching for aviation and border databases that need rapid, scalable search.
• Iris, face, or fusion 1:N search
• Kubernetes microservices scale-out
• REST API for program integrations
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Passenger and border identity
Contact us for a demonstration – and discuss touchless travel for your airport or border program.
