Will we soon be exempt from removing liquids and computers when leaving by plane? In any case, Orly airport is currently experimenting with 3D scanners for cabin bags intended for this purpose.
More accurate security checks
“The difference is that you don’t have to take off your computer, phones, liquids, makeup, etc.”, Edward Arkwright, CEO of the Aéroports de Paris (ADP) group, explained on Wednesday during the presentation to the press of these new devices. The two scanners, in the testing phase since October, are located at the beginning of Terminal 3 at Orly airport.
Beyond saving users time, the technology above all improves the precision of controls by security agents. If other European airports like Heathrow in London or Schipol in Amsterdam are also experimenting with the system, Paris has the most recent version of the software and is therefore faster to run, according to details provided by ADP.
“It’s revolutionary”
Faced with the 3D image of a suitcase that is displayed in a few seconds on his screen, the operator “will be able to rotate the image, look at it from all angles,” says Mr. Arkwright, which allows “to know if the object he has located requires an elimination of doubts, therefore a manual search, which will take two or three minutes”.
Around the conveyor belts, the employees of Sécuritas, ADP’s subcontractor at these checkpoints, are already delighted to not have to repeat “a thousand times in an hour that all liquids must be removed” in this test.
After this one-year experimental phase in Orly launched in October 2022, the system will be tested at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport from October 2023.
Source: BFM TV
