The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is introducing faster baggage scanners, which also render better images and are equipped with more advanced X-ray penetration levels, agency officials said on Sunday.
The new X-ray baggage Scanning System (X-BIS), 34 of which have already been installed at stations across the network, can scan 550 bags an hour, as against 350 bags an hour the old machines were capable of. DMRC plans to add another 250 such scanners by the end of the year, said officials.
“The conveyor belt speed has been increased from 18cm per second to 30cm per second in the new machine. This is intended to reduce heavy passenger rush at frisking points, especially during peak hours,” said Anuj Dayal, principal executive director of DMRC’s corporate communications.
