Automated Departure Gate Integrating Security and Immigration Checks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional airport departure procedures are inefficient, requiring separate locations for entry, security screening, and examination, leading to high personnel costs, potential for passport or boarding pass forgery, and increased risk of illegal entry due to scattered equipment and manual control.
Innovation Solution
An automated system that integrates departure area entry, security screening, and examination procedures using electronic passports with embedded IC chips storing identity and bio information, which are read and verified to determine authenticity and identity, allowing only authorized passengers to proceed through security checkpoints.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If departure area entry procedure, security screening procedure, and departure examination procedure are performed in different places with manual control, then each procedure can be independently controlled, but personnel costs increase, time consumption increases, and security reliability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines three separate procedures (departure area entry, security screening, and departure examination) that were previously performed in different locations into a single integrated automated system. The departure automation apparatus consolidates passport reading, biometric verification, security screening, and immigration examination functions into one unified device, eliminating the need for separate manual control points and reducing overall system complexity while improving security reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The departure automation apparatus performs multiple functions simultaneously: it reads electronic passports, captures and compares biometric data (face images), conducts security screenings, and communicates with immigration systems. This multi-functional integration allows a single device to replace multiple separate systems and manual operations, reducing personnel requirements and processing time while maintaining comprehensive security checks.
2Productivity
If multiple separate procedures are performed manually, then flexibility in control is maintained, but processing time increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service automated processing where the departure automation apparatus independently performs passport verification, biometric comparison, security screening, and immigration examination without requiring manual intervention at each step. The apparatus automatically reads electronic passports, compares stored biometric data with captured images, and makes determination decisions, significantly reducing processing time and increasing productivity compared to manual procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical operations with automated electronic and optical systems. Instead of manual passport inspection, biometric comparison, and security screening by personnel, the system uses electronic passport reading devices, biometric recognition software, and automated decision-making algorithms, dramatically improving processing speed and efficiency.
3Ease of operation
If boarding pass and passport are required separately, then verification accuracy is maintained, but passenger convenience decreases and loss risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic passport serves multiple verification functions simultaneously. It contains both identity information (replacing traditional passport verification) and biometric data (replacing boarding pass verification). The departure automation apparatus reads and processes both types of information from a single electronic passport document, eliminating the need for passengers to carry separate boarding passes and passports while maintaining comprehensive verification accuracy through integrated biometric and identity checking.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of automating arrival and departure procedures in an airport, by which the forgery of a passport, the identity of a passport bearer, the arrival or departure permission according to a result of arrival and departure examinations, and the carry-on of prohibited items on the plane are automatically checked. The apparatus for automating arrival and departure procedures according to the present invention includes an exit gate, a departure automation apparatus, and may further include an entrance gate and a scanner. In the apparatus for automating arrival and departure procedures according to the present invention, a departure area entry procedure, a security screening procedure, and a departure examination procedure for departure passengers, which are conventionally performed separately in different areas, may be incorporated in the same area and performed therein.