2023-04-25 07:33:57
The pulse as a passport at the airport
Similar to fingerprints and the retina of the eyes, each person’s heartbeat is unique. According to the airline Easyjet, it could therefore one day replace the passport. It will take a long time until then, but it would bring further advantages.
Heart rate and retina scans at the airport – is this the future of travel?
What: Easyjet
Balbum babe Even heartbeat. The heart rate is measured for ten seconds at the security checkpoint at the airport, displayed as a diagram on the public monitor, and then automatically compared with the previously stored cardiological signature in the cloud. If the values match and the additional eye retina scan also fits, the security gate opens and the passenger strolls on to the gate. There is no waiting for hours, no rush, no delays.
The pulse as a passport. Similar to fingerprints and the retina of the eyes, the heartbeat of each person is unique and therefore unmistakable. In its “Report on the Future of Travel”, the airline Easyjet predicts that the heartbeat will one day replace the conventional passport. The biometrics researchers concede that this would probably not be standard for another 50 years, but the thought alone is quite fascinating. First heartbeats, then departure.
This could also be wonderfully expanded as a free medical service: How about sending the ECG file to the passenger’s cell phone at the same time if their heartbeat is stuttering, so that they can be checked by their family doctor when the opportunity arises? With kind regards from “your caring airline” and the request for a good rating.
If you’re lucky, there might even be a doctor among the passengers who quickly examines the sine curves of the heart rate on the public monitor. If atrial fibrillation is suspected, an airline would probably not take the passenger on long-haul routes anyway. In this heartbeat future, enterprising cardiologists will have opened airport walk-in practices next to the security checkpoint, who will then have ad hoc medicine ready and issue a certificate so that the vacation in Acapulco can still work out.
Airports already collect a lot of data
Biometrics are already common today when travelling: fingerprints in passports and at border controls, face recognition in airports such as Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich, with airlines such as Lufthansa or even when entering the USA. It is not certain whether such sensitive data will ever be deleted at all. The authorities would be pretty stupid not to collect such interesting data for security reasons.
Presumably, more portrait photos and fingerprints of vacationers have ended up in more databases over time than they could ever imagine. And most likely thanks to data exchange even in countries where they have never set foot.
Voice recognition is also already being used at airports. Roughly in the Middle East. For example, when checking in at Jeddah Airport in Saudi Arabia, passengers are asked to speak their own name into the microphone.
An hour later, a call suddenly sounds from the loudspeakers to go to the gate soon. As he does so, his own voice can be heard calling to himself loud and clear across the hall, “Mrs. Han-ser!” Creepy but effective: flinched, startled, sprinted to the gate. Done on time. Pulse over 100, tachycardia. Bad bum, bad bum!
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