Trials of two digital safety scanners produced by German producer Rohde & Schwarz have begun at Zurich Airport. The long-term plan is to equip all safety checkpoints on the airport with the brand new expertise.
Flughafen Zürich AG is presently testing two R&S QPS201 safety scanners. They’re in use on two of a complete of 26 passenger-screening lanes within the safety inspection constructing. In the course of the trial section, the brand new units won’t exchange typical metallic detectors, as a substitute serving as supplementary inspection units. Passengers stand within the safety scanner for a short while, whereas potential threats on their physique are displayed on a standardized digital avatar with out revealing private attributes.
The Rohde & Schwarz safety scanner is engaging because of its market-leading security efficiency mixed with excessive effectivity and intuitive operation for passengers. The scanner works with millimeter-wave expertise. It renders the captured picture information nameless, whereas additionally analyzing it with a view to detect prohibited gadgets on passengers rapidly and precisely. The automated detection operate is predicated on AI algorithms that purpose to establish a variety of object courses of all supplies, corresponding to metals, liquids, ceramics, plastics, granulates, powders, natural substances and rather more, with extraordinarily low false alarm charges. This reduces the trouble required by safety personnel for handbook follow-up inspections.
This Rohde & Schwarz expertise has been proving its price within the aviation business since 2015, with over 1,000 scanners already in use at airports worldwide. They’re accredited by the European Civil Aviation Convention (ECAC), the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) and lots of different nationwide authorities.