Border Management

Biometrics Increasing passenger numbers bring increasing security concerns. Governments and border control agencies need fast and accurate systems that will help in verifying inadmissible travellers such as those on watch lists, while meeting efficient traffic-flow objectives at borders, including rapid immigration clearance.

Governments and airlines are also faced with the major issue of identity fraud. You may analyze a traveller's personal data to assess risk in advance of departure, but what if the person in front of you is assuming a false identity or usurping another's?

iBorders Border Management Solution is the industry's only full end-to-end solution able to address the convergence of passenger biographic data and biometric technologies, combining pre-arrival risk assessment with true identity management on the global level.

SITA know-how

With 100 years of aggregated experience in supporting the needs of governments worldwide, Our Border Management solution capitalizes on this experience, as well as the unique knowledge which has made us the leader in the border management market.

Our solution helped ensure the security of major world sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa, where more than 1.5 million passengers were processed using SITA's technology.

SITA received the Frost and Sullivan 2011 Global Border Control Customer Value Enhancement Award acknowledging SITA's position as the first IT solutions provider to deliver border management solutions to strengthen borders at airports and is the only one that serves airlines and governments on every continent.

More than 200 airlines use our solution to submit millions of messages every week to meet a variety of government requirements around the world.

SITA iBorders Border Management can be a fully managed turnkey service, customized to fit the needs of the customer, or it can allow for the progressive building up of an integrated solution. It includes:

Collecting and processing passenger biographic data
Performing pre-arrival risk assessment, thus extending the border up to the point of check-in
Enabling airlines to provide the data required by governments in the right format and in a timely manner
Supporting direct interaction between the border control agencies and the airlines at the point of sale and at check-in for the issuance of electronic visas
Using biometric technologies to provide true identity management and facilitate automated border clearance
Integrating biometrics and biographic passenger data in a person-centric system of risk assessment and automated border control
Integrating biometric identity verification into the end-to-end passenger handling process, allowing airlines, airports and governments to use common biometric identity credentials

SITA is a strong supporter of the development of international & industry standards for the transmission and processing of passenger data for border management applications. In particular, protecting the privacy of individual passengers is a key element of building sustainable international standards. When Governments adopt border management solutions, it is necessary that the appropriate legislation is in place. Access the latest EU developments about the subject.

Benefits

SITA iBorders Border Management provides the following benefits to governments:

Cost-effective security
Reduce or eliminate operational and/or cost implications
Expedite passenger clearance process at borders

Border Management provides the following benefits to airlines:

Compatible with existing air transport industry systems.
Reduce operational complexity and costs by providing a single interface to meet government data requirements
Reduce or eliminate fines levied by governments for transporting improperly documented passengers
Improve passenger experience through more effective processing and extended self-service through the use of biometric credential

Features

Border Management includes the following:

Global solution for governments
Single interface
Fully scalable to meet specific needs
Pre-arrival risk analysis by use of advance passenger data with iBorders AdvancedManagement
Integration of biographic data and biometric capabilities with iBorders BioThenticate

SITA iBorders AdvancedManagement

SITA iBorders AdvancedManagement can provide governments with a range of features to enhance security through improved detection, while at the same time facilitating rapid border-crossing of low-risk travellers. This includes simple data acquirement from airlines systems up to sophisticated tools that provide intelligent risk assessment in advance of a passenger's arrival, or even departure.

SITA iBorders AdvancedManagement:

Extends borders to the point of flight origin, allowing arrival government to prevent passengers from boarding aircraft
Performs sophisticated risk assessment of arriving and departing travellers, pre or post departure, using a variety of passenger data
Targets key persons of interest and take proactive actions

iBorders AdvancedManagement is applicable to arrival, departure and transfer passengers.

SITA iBorders BioThenticate

SITA iBorders BioThenticate can allow governments to ascertain a person's true identity by using a variety of anatomical characteristics, including finger, face and iris. The results are automated, repeatable, highly reliable and cost-effective.

Standard functionalities include:

Extended biometric enrollment capacity, including dedicated enrollment stations, biometric smart card production, and online passenger vetting by the government
Advanced server functionality, including security, connectivity and detailed operational reporting
A range of self-service gates optimized for either high-security or maximum passenger throughput, in line with operational requirements from immigration authorities and airlines

SITA iBorders Gateway Services

Designed for airlines, SITA iBorders Gateway Services offers a range of services that acquire the data mandated by governments for risk assessment from Reservations and Departure Control Systems and normalise, check, filter and submit that data in the formats and at the time required by multiple governments. Features include:

Passenger Name Record (PNR) gateway services, such as the PNR Push / Filter service to Canada
Advance Passenger Processing (APP) gateway services, such as the Advance Passenger Information Quick Query (AQQ) gateway service to the USA
Advance Passenger Information (API) gateway services, such as the UK and India APIS services
Combination gateway services, such as SecureFlight to the USA, which uses a combination of PNR and APP gateway services

With iBorders Gateway Services, SITA can manage all of your passenger data provisioning requirements to any and all governments on your route network.