Orly Airport is testing 3D scanners for cabin bags. A technology that is supposed to streamline security checks thanks to increased precision.
Will we soon be exempt from taking out liquids and computers when traveling by plane? In any case, this is the wish of Orly airport, which is currently experimenting with 3D scanners designed for this purpose to analyze suitcases in the cabin.
“The difference is that you don’t have to remove your computer, telephones, liquids, make-up, etc…”, detailed on April 26 Edward Arkwright, Executive Director General of the Aéroports de Paris (ADP) group, during the presentation to the press of this new equipment. The two scanners, in the trial phase since October, are located at the start of terminal 3 at Orly airport.
More precise security checks
Beyond saving time for users, the technology above all improves the accuracy of checks by security officers. If other European airports such as Heathrow in London or Schipol in Amsterdam are also experimenting with the system, Paris has the most recent version of the software and is therefore faster to execute, according to details provided by ADP. .
In front of the 3D visual of a suitcase which is displayed in a few seconds on his screen, the operator “will be able to turn the image over, look at it from every angle”, assures Mr. Arkwright, which makes it possible to “know if the object he has spotted requires a removal of doubt, therefore a manual search, which will take two or three minutes”.
“It’s revolutionary”
Around the conveyor belts, the employees of Sécuritas, an ADP subcontractor at these checkpoints, are already delighted to no longer have to repeat “a thousand times in an hour that all liquids must be removed” , in this test.
“It’s revolutionary”, testifies to AFP Sammia Lacheb who has worked for 14 years in Paris airports. “It’s a real breath of fresh air in fact,” she adds, guiding, smiling, each passenger who comes in front of her.
After this one-year experimental phase at Orly launched in October 2022, the system will be tested at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport from October 2023.
