Digital transformation in airports

15 November 2019

The recent reopening of the Milan Linate Airport at the end of October 2019 aims to mark a positive turning point for safety and technological efficiency in Italy.
An important update and reevaluation of air transport systems and services, extended until 2021, is fundamental in a hub like Milan.
It is also what President Donald Trump is already experimenting in 22 major American airports, facial recognition, a biometric scanner that collects visual data and fingerprints.
In 2017, Delta Airlines tested this new recognition system which avoids the use of a passport, to verify the correspondence of the face data in the photo with the real data of the passenger.
The end? The prevention of international terrorist attacks, smuggling of narcotic substances, illegal products and immigration data control.
An opportunity to re-evaluate Linate Airport after its closure on 8 October 2001, when a private jet and a Scandinavian airliner collided on the runway. In fact, conditions of general backwardness and inefficiency of safety procedures were revealed.
Even London Heathrow Airport does not exclude innovation. Since 2017, digital business transformation has been taking over to speed up international control processes at gates with biometric scans.
In Australia, however, by 2020, the ambitious goal of automating 90% of screening processes in international airports, where no human interaction is expected, is expected.
For the future, we will want the passenger to be freer from suitcases and security checks, it will be possible to send your luggage to its destination and if you really don’t want to leave it… this one, with command, will be able to follow the owner in full autonomy until check-in. in.