Every day, more than 2 million people pass through American
airport security.
TSA is partnering with the Department of Homeland Security
Science and Technology Directorate to pursue self
screening, the ability for passengers to quickly clear
security without the aid of an officer.
If you look at self screening, it's similar to the self
checkout in a grocery store, why not in the airport?
The promise of self screening is being made possible by the DHS
S&T Screening at Speed program, powered in part by the
Silicon Valley Innovation Program.
Innovation is critical to TSA, so SVIP allows us to leverage
these startups that that are coming up with innovative ideas
for the purposes of inserting and the ultimately fielding
these different technologies.
Mycox's vision of self screening is to transform the passenger
screening as it stands today, which is very much like an
assembly line, and turn it into a modular self-directed system
that enables multiple passengers to be screened simultaneously.
Self screening enables the passenger to move through at
their pace generating a single integrated security picture
enabled by a consortium of S&T and SVIP funded startups
and companies.
What makes millimetre wave imaging that we are building
different than available commercial systems today that it
is able to be fast enough to adapt to the natural motion of
the human body.
What we do is we provide a computer vision integration
layer that sits on top of either the existing hardware or the new
self-service screening hardware that will be built so that the
process is as seamless as if there is ATSA agent guiding you
through.
It's been a very collaborative effort with DHSTSASVIP to build
this technology.
The application is going to be spot on from day one because
it's something that has been built for the customer.
TSA and S&T improving the passenger journey through
increased speed and enhanced security.
The user experience is huge.
Giving them a quicker path through screening system and
getting them to their destination as safely and as
efficiently as they can get there is at the core of where
TSA wants to go.