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 know-how.
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. Through the trial section, the brand new gadgets is not going to exchange standard steel detectors, as a substitute serving as supplementary inspection gadgets. Passengers stand within the safety scanner for a short while, whereas doable threats on their physique are displayed on a standardized digital avatar with out revealing private attributes.
The Rohde & Schwarz safety scanner is engaging attributable to its market-leading security efficiency mixed with excessive effectivity and intuitive operation for passengers. The scanner works with millimeter-wave know-how. It renders the captured picture information nameless, whereas additionally analyzing it in an effort to detect prohibited objects on passengers shortly and precisely. The automated detection perform relies on AI algorithms that purpose to determine a variety of object courses of all supplies, corresponding to metals, liquids, ceramics, plastics, granulates, powders, natural substances and far more, with extraordinarily low false alarm charges. This reduces the hassle required by safety personnel for guide follow-up inspections.
This Rohde & Schwarz know-how has been proving its price within the aviation trade since 2015, with over 1,000 scanners already in use at airports worldwide. They’re authorized by the European Civil Aviation Convention (ECAC), the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) and plenty of different nationwide authorities.
