Border Management

Biometrics Growing passenger numbers bring increasing security concerns. Governments and border control agencies need fast and accurate systems that will stop unwanted travellers but still keep passengers flowing freely through the airport.

Governments and airlines are also faced with the major issue of identity fraud. You may analyze a traveler's personal data to assess risk before departure. But what if the person in front of you is using a false or stolen identity?

iBorders Border Management Solution is the industry's only full end-to-end solution that can match passenger biographic data with biometric technologies. This combines pre-arrival risk assessment with true identity management on the global level.

SITA know-how

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 your needs. 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, effectively extending the border up to the point of check-in
Enabling airlines to provide the data required by governments in the right format and at the right time
Supporting collaboration between the border control agencies and the airlines at the point of sale and at check-in for issuing electronic visas
Using biometric technologies to provide true identity management and put automated border clearance into action
Integrating biometrics and biographic passenger data for 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 the common biometric identity credentials

SITA is a strong supporter of the development of international and industry standards for sharing and processing 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, the appropriate legislation must be in place. Access the latest EU developments about the subject.

Benefits

SITA iBorders Border Management provides the following benefits to governments:

Cost-effective security
Reduced or zero operational and/or cost implications
More efficient passenger clearance process at borders

Border Management provides the following benefits to airlines:

Compatability with existing air transport industry systems
Reduced operational complexity and costs by providing a single interface to meet government data requirements
Reduced or zero fines levied by governments for transporting improperly documented passengers
Improved passenger experience through more effective processing and extended self-service through the use of biometric credentials

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 improve security through better detection, while at the same time helping low risk travellers cross the border rapidly. This includes simple data collection 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 travelers, 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 find 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 applications 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 governments need for risk assessment from Reservations and Departure Control Systems. The solution then normalises, checks, filters and submits 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.