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# EyeTickets Take Off
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/eyetickets-take-off/
- Published: 2000-07-20T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-04T17:09:24.000Z
- Description: Two airports began scanning passengers’ eyes this week to help streamline boarding and security processes, using video cameras…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: SEEDS, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

Two airports began scanning passengers’ eyes this week to help streamline boarding and security processes, using video cameras to scan the iris…EyeTicket began registering passengers at Charlotte/ Douglas International Airport in North Carolina and Flughafen Frankfurt Airport in Germany this week. The company has already been scanning Charlotte/Douglas airport employees and U.S. Airways Group Inc. flight staffs since May. The iris scans translate the 266 independent characteristics of the iris into a 512-byte digital code. A 30 frame per secong, black-and-white video camera is used to take a picture of the eye from 6 to 36 inches away. EyeTicket Chairman and CEO Stewart Mann says iris scans aren’t invasive like retina scans, which use a laser to probe the eye. He also said retinas change during a person’s life, whereas irises don’t.The airport rollouts are among the first major business applications involving iris-scan technology. Once U.S. Airways passengers enroll, their codes will be stored for future use, and Mann says he hopes airline passengers will be able to step in front of a terminal kiosk, get scanned in one second and then be issued a boarding pass - a process he expects to bring online within a year. [www.eyeticket.com](http://www.eyeticket.com/company/press-room/71700.html?ref=protein.xyz)