EP0935790A1 - Systemes de securite permettant de controler les deplacements de passagers et/ou de bagages - Google Patents

Systemes de securite permettant de controler les deplacements de passagers et/ou de bagages

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EP0935790A1
EP0935790A1 EP97944955A EP97944955A EP0935790A1 EP 0935790 A1 EP0935790 A1 EP 0935790A1 EP 97944955 A EP97944955 A EP 97944955A EP 97944955 A EP97944955 A EP 97944955A EP 0935790 A1 EP0935790 A1 EP 0935790A1
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passenger
memory
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Geoffrey Stringer Hunter
Edward Korolkiewicz
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64F—GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B64F1/00—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations
    • B64F1/36—Other airport installations
    • B64F1/368—Arrangements or installations for routing, distributing or loading baggage
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64F—GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B64F1/00—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations
    • B64F1/36—Other airport installations
    • B64F1/366—Check-in counters
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points

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  • This invention relates to a security control system for use in controlling passenger / luggage movement.
  • the existing system for passenger travel relies on a book-type passport with data visibly stored (printed) on paper together with a photograph. On leaving a country it is necessary to present both travel tickets and passport at the reservation desk prior to obtaining a boarding card and a seat reservation. The passport is then checked between landside / airside at immigration / passport control and depending upon the procedures applicable at the time, again by the relevant airline personnel at the exits from the departure lounge.
  • Unaccompanied passenger baggage loaded in the hold of the aircraft is normally "checked in” at the reservation desk, where currently a bar code type (or similar ID type) label is attached to each piece of luggage in ord r to facilitate its routing via the handling and conveyor systems.
  • the Dar code does not bear any unique identification code relating it to a particular passenger, oth i than corresponding to a receipt attached to the passengei airline ticket.
  • This invention relates generally to passenger movement control and that of an unaccompanied baggage control system by use of short range read / write radio based tags. Eventually the two systems can be linked to have common control of passengers and baggage .
  • the tag will be incorporated / laminated within a passport e.g. within a paper- type passport of known type, where all required details will be stored. In effect it becomes an "electronic passport".
  • the tag could be embodied in any suitable form, even in the format of a standard ISO card where data such as name, address, date of birth can be stored together either w th a visual identification photograph, or in digital or other format.
  • the passport chip is tamper proof, containing a unique ID which cannot be overwritten and which will correspond solely with the data stored on the host nation's organisation's data base. To increase the security of the system, such code shall be encrypted.
  • the electronic passport can be autom r ically interrogated at any passenger monitoring station as part of a passenger movement immigration control system.
  • a similar type tag, ideally paper based, similar to the current bar coded tags, but containing an antennae and a chip would supersede the bar code type label, currently used for luggage identification.
  • the unique passenger ID number will be written into the chip, together with flight details This information will be used to monitor automatically, and continuously if necessary, the baggage mov ⁇ ⁇ > nent on the conveyor / handling system.
  • the invention includes application of an "electronic passport” foi immigration control and baggage handling, monitoring and identification purpose.
  • the system can be employed to speed the flow of legitimate visitors travelling from one country to another, and automatically, as opposed to manually, ensure that the luggage / baggage associated with each traveller accompanies the legitimate owner, particularly when travelling by air. If, for some reason, baggage and its owner become separated (no accompanying one another on the same aircraft, ship etc), the authorities / operators and owners can be immediately alerted to the situation.
  • the general inventive concept has also been developed for security reasons.
  • An electronic passport which in appearance may be identical in every respect to an existing passport, will contain an integrated circuit (chip) laminated within the cover. Because the chip contains unique identification applicable to the owner, the document itself is incapable of being forged. Furthermore, if during immigration proceedings, a positive verification of an individual's identification should be required, a visual image of the passport application photograph (recorded in, say, digital fo- mat at the passport application stage) will be able to be down-loaded to the monitor a the immigration control point. The image can be checked both with the photograph in the passport, and the individual concerned. For covert purposes, the photograph can also be automatically checked and verified with stored images of known criminals, drug traffickers, terrorists and the like.
  • the passport IC is passive and can be capable of being written to, or read from, and can contain data and information normally held legitimately for immigration control purposes.
  • the unique identification is incapable of being tampered with, or over-written.
  • the system can be programmed to alert immigration authorities, anywhere in the world, to monitor the travel movements / habits of any individual. If required, any passport could be blocked for travelling pu r poses, even without having to be surrendered.
  • the only physical information which a passenger requires will be a pi- :e of documentation (boarding card) indicating the departure point (gate etc), date and time, sailing, flight number etc and cabin / seat number etc.
  • the manifest will be checked automa ically as passengers board the particular means of transport e.g. an aircraft, as will the loading of accompanying baggage.
  • FIG. 1 of the ⁇ rawings this is a block diagram of a radio based booking and baggage control system.
  • the so-called "electronic passport” would be produced at the reservations desk (wrnch may be either remote, as at a travel agent, or in the terminal), where it would be automatically read by a suitable reading device at the first monitoring station, namely the antennae module and reader
  • a suitable reading device at the first monitoring station namely the antennae module and reader
  • each piece of luggage will have a tag securely fastened to it by means of a self-locking device (tie wraps)
  • a cheap disposable tag could be used for one off situations, (holiday etc) but for frequent travellers the tags will preferably be reusable.
  • each tag will be capable of being attached to (or incorporated within) a piece of baggage for an indefinite period of time, to enable its re- use whenever necessary. It will be passive and be capable of being written to, and read from. Appropriately data will be downloaded automatically to the tag. Such data will include a unique read only ID number, for identification purposes, the ID of the owner (from passport), flight number and destination, etc .
  • the conveyor information and control system readers will be capable of sorting baggage to ensure that only designated luggage is loaded onto the correct means of transport (e.g. plane or ship) and each piece will be automatically logged on board.
  • Figure 2 is a block diagram of an electronic immigration control system for people entering a country. Passport holders' details would be detected by the antennae unit / reader and automatically displayed on the control desk monitor.
  • Information relating to passengers arriving in the country can also be pre-checked and analysed, prior to the landing of aircraft, the docking of ships or the arrival of trains etc. Any physical / manual interface with individuals which might be considered appropriate could be pre-determined in advance of arrival of the passengers at the point of entry. Luggage can be automatically matched to passport holders and can be further checked at Customs.
  • the back office system namely systems integration, networking, a development, of databases . ,n both national / international basis, together with specific customised software, can cater foi all require data processing.
  • FIGs 3 and 4 are graphic illustr itions of practical application of the systems shown schematically in figures 1 and 2.
  • an automatic control of passengers within an airport or port for security and immigration by the use of an electronic passport consisting of: an IC chip and an antenna forming part of an electronic passport which is capable of establishing encrypted communication with a reader using radio technology; the IC chip will have a memory where it contains a unique identification number and which is tamper proof; an electronic reader can write and store in the IC chip passenger personal and travel details and read this information on the accompanying baggage and the unique identification number at any time during its passage through the airport; based on the electronic passport as means of remotely determining the passenger details, an automatic control system can be used for the control of passengers at the reservation desk and at the immigration desk, from th- landside to airside and vice-versa.
  • the automatic monitoring and control of unaccompanied passenger luggage by the use of an electronic tag and a reader consisting of: a paper type of disposable electronic tag (or a permanent tag) consisting of an IC chip and an antenna attached to the luggage; the IC chip consists of a memory which contains a unique identification number and which is ta pei proof; an electronic reader which can write and store information in the IC chip and read such stored information and the unique number at any subsequent time; monitor the position of the luggage on the conveyor belt by suitably placed system readers; provide an automatic monitoring and control system of luggage from the reservation desk to the delivery of the luggage on the plane. Further provide automatic monitoring and control of the luggage from the plane to the pick-up point.

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Abstract

Système de sécurité destiné à être utilisé dans un terminal de transport. Une étiquette électronique de passager comprend une mémoire et un dispositif de transmission sans fil qui transfère dans la mémoire et depuis cette dernière des données relatives au passager, ladite mémoire conservant de manière permanente un code d'identification unique de passager inviolable. Une étiquette électronique de bagage comprend une mémoire et un dispositif de transmission sans fil qui transfère dans la mémoire et depuis cette dernière des données relatives aux bagages. Un système de contrôle comprend une station de surveillance des passagers et un dispositif de traitement de données. La station de surveillance des passagers lit à distance un code d'identification unique et le système de contrôle inscrit ce dernier dans la mémoire d'une étiquette électronique de bagage. Le dispositif de traitement de données met en corrélation les codes d'identification uniques de passagers avec les données relatives aux bagages qui ont été lues dans la mémoire des étiquettes électroniques de bagages pour déterminer si les passagers ou les bagages sont autorisés à poursuivre leur chemin dans le terminal de transport.
EP97944955A 1996-10-04 1997-09-30 Systemes de securite permettant de controler les deplacements de passagers et/ou de bagages Withdrawn EP0935790A1 (fr)

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GB9620708 1996-10-04
GBGB9620708.9A GB9620708D0 (en) 1996-10-04 1996-10-04 Passenger/luggage movement control security systems
PCT/GB1997/002640 WO1998015921A1 (fr) 1996-10-04 1997-09-30 Systemes de securite permettant de controler les deplacements de passagers et/ou de bagages

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