El sistema ABC System se actualiza para agilizar a los ciudadanos el cruce de fronteras en aeropuertos

El sistema automático de identificación y verificación documental Automatic Border Control System -ABC System-, implantado en los aeropuertos de Madrid y Barcelona por el Ministerio del Interior y desarrollado por Indra, que identifica al pasajero mediante una doble comprobación biométrica, de la imagen facial y dactilar, ha sido actualizado para permitir una mayor rapidez y precisión, reducir la tasa de falso rechazo y evitar molestias a los ciudadanos.

El sistema ABC System para el cruce de fronteras en los aeropuertos ha sido actualizado para agilizar aún más el proceso a los ciudadanos. More than 450.000 personas han utilizado desde 2010 el Automatic Border Control System, operating at Madrid's Barajas and Barcelona's El Prat airports. The technological solution, implemented by the Ministry of the Interior and developed by the multinational technology company Indra, identifies the passenger through a double biometric verification, de la imagen facial y dactilar. The new version of the system allows for greater speed and accuracy, reduces the false rejection rate and avoids inconvenience for citizens. Automated control provides greater efficiency, security, comodidad, rationality, and modernity for travelers and cost savings for the State. Citizens from Schengen area countries entering Spain from outside this zone can thus pass police control comfortably and without agent intervention.

Average processing time of 20 seconds

In this update - the second version of the system- new technological features have been added while maintaining the simplicity of the procedure for the passenger. The biometric verification process has also been simplified with the incorporation of various zones of certainty and uncertainty. Thus, The system performs facial verification and, depending on the result, decides whether it is necessary to carry out fingerprint biometric verification. The average processing time remains at 20 seconds with an improvement in the accuracy of biometric recognition.

The new version also adds a multimodal biometrics process. The results of individual biometric verifications along with other additional features, how quality and reliability, merge to offer a single result. This reduces the false rejection rate and avoids inconvenience to the passenger.

Cost reduction

Spain was 2010 one of the first countries to implement automated border control systems. Since then, the ABC System has been used in terminals T1 and T4 of Madrid-Barajas and in T1 and T2 of El Prat-Barcelona. This type of technology allows making the most of the new identity documents and electronic passports, which incorporate cryptographic systems. This improves security and accuracy in passenger identification and achieves, at the same time, cost savings. Being an unattended service, permite liberar recursos humanos para otras funciones o donde se requiera una mayor vigilancia.

Para efectuar la verificación e identificación del viajero, el sistema ABC está conectado con cuatro grandes bases de datos: el Sistema de Inspección de Pasaportes, el Sistema de Autenticación del DNI-e, las Bases de datos de personas y documentos de la Policía y el Registro del paso de fronteras. Los viajeros deberán cumplir una serie de requisitos para utilizar este ágil y moderno sistema: ser ciudadano de la UE, de Islandia, Noruega o Suiza, mayor de 18 años y disponer de un pasaporte electrónico o DNI-e.

Elementos del Automatic Border System

1. Módulos de Identificación: dotados de verificadores documentales, lectores de DNI-e, lectores de impresiones dactilares y cámaras.

The traveler carries out the entire identification and verification process with the support of an informational touchscreen.

2. Access modules: consisting of the gates that represent the physical barrier determining the actual border crossing, once the identification and verification process has been validated.

3. Assisted control post: operated by police officers, allows for continuous monitoring of the previous processes and responds to potential alerts. Ensures personal assistance for travelers who have encountered issues in these processes and monitors the system's operation.

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