{"id":429318,"date":"2021-08-06T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T04:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429318"},"modified":"2021-08-06T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T06:08:47","slug":"these-6-indian-airports-will-soon-use-facial-recognition-for-boarding-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/these-6-indian-airports-will-soon-use-facial-recognition-for-boarding-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"These 6 Indian airports will soon use facial recognition for boarding passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as six airports in India will soon use facial recognition technology for facilitating biometric boarding system, Union minister of state for civil aviation, VK Singh, told the Lok Sabha on Thursday. A trial project based on the technology is currently underway at these airports. <\/p>\n<p>The civil aviation ministry had in August 2018 released a policy on \u2018Digi Yatra\u2019 that aims to offer a \u201ccontactless, seamless and paperless handling of passengers at airports from the entry gate of the terminal to the boarding point,\u201d according to an official statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWork has been awarded for implementation of Biometric Boarding System (BBS)\u2026at six airports namely \u2013 Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Varanasi and Vijayawada,\u201d Singh further told the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as six airports in India will soon use facial recognition technology for facilitating biometric boarding system, Union minister of state for civil aviation, VK Singh, told the Lok Sabha on Thursday. A trial project based on the technology is currently underway at these airports. The civil aviation ministry had in August 2018 released a policy on \u2018Digi Yatra\u2019 that aims to offer a \u201ccontactless, seamless and paperless handling of passengers at airports from the entry gate of the terminal to the boarding point,\u201d according to an official statement. \u201cWork has been awarded for implementation of Biometric Boarding System [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}