Soon, flyers from Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad will have one less errand to finish before taking off. Air terminals in these three urban cities will before long begin testing another examining innovation that will spare travelers from the problem of taking out laptops and electronic devices for screening before boarding a flight. As per a TOI report, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has given its endorsement to begin 3D-based registered tomography (CT) scanner at Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad air terminals on a pilot premise.
With this, India will join the rundown of countries like the US, UK, Netherlands and Israel who use this technology for passenger baggage screening. At present, travelers in India are required to take out their laptops and other electronic devices from the cabin cabbage they are carrying with them and place them independently in the x-ray machine at the time of security checking. Currently, no Indian airport has 3D CT scanners and the screening of in-flight baggage is done using the x-ray machines.
Such a scanner will spare the exertion put in by CISF work force for screening and it will in this way permit them in better profiling a suspicious traveler as time would be spared in independently checking the electronic things. This will likewise accelerate security checks and lessen lines everywhere airplane terminals that handle overwhelming traveler traffic. The measure to get the new device is a piece of the powers’ arrangement to enlist shrewd innovation that won’t just encourage speedy traveler travel yet additionally not trade off on security. Since a year ago, the CISF has additionally started an undertaking to get rid of lodge things labels for travelers at 49 civil airports out of the 60 that the para compel anchors.