Singapore’s automated clearance concept, upgrading land, sea and air checkpoints with facial and iris biometrics, makes a ‘progressive’ turn as pre-pandemic passenger levels creep up again.
Biometrics will seamlessly manage the flow of foreigner travellers into Singapore and minimise traffic at the border. Land border reforms for entry via Malaysia were announced last month in a MoU agreement introducing QR codes.
The biometric provisions first had to be paused whilst comprehensive reforms were introduced for the Immigration Act. Fast forward to now, and the procedures and conditions for foreign travellers permitted to travel, outlined in the 6-part Immigration Act, were reported again by The Straits Times. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s idea of modern travel in Singapore will not require pre-registration on a digital app.
Instead, Singapore has quickly delivered a modern biometric strategy, installing hundreds of extra automated security lanes on top of 160 deployed last year.
IDEMIA, a leading biometric supplier for the travel sector, is once again appointed as the technology partner for Singapore’s arrival and departure checks, having also performed upgrades at Changi Airport.
The bill amendments in 2023 will have also led to the right supplier being selected to deliver modernised immigration processes.
IDEMIA is supplying its Augmented Borders Suite of ID-Look devices and back-end systems for a contactless Automated Border Control System. QR codes or multi biometric modalities including iris, face and fingerprint recognition will be used to create seamless border controls for the customer-facing experience.
