Portuguese technology controls 100 million passengers per year – Vision

Repordução of vision-box.com

The company was testing one of their pilot schemes of border control using biometrics in the airport of Faro, when ali landed an influential british politician. In principle, he had come only to play golf in the Algarve, but is passed by the portal ” e-Gate) and refused to return to their country without first talking with the leaders of the company responsible for the development of this technology.

Now, the company has its headquarters in Carnaxide, on the outskirts of Lisbon, and is called Vision Box. That story, told by its CEO, Miguel Leitmann, Bloomberg was only the impetus for a flight in height. Portals and quiósques electronic identical to those that were to be tested in Faro are now used in airports JFK, New York city, and london Heathrow, London, in addition to other 70 international.

it All started when Leitmann and Bento Belt (chairman) investigated systems of video-surveillance in a laboratory of the Portuguese State, and realized the market potential of the technology that they were developing. In 2001, they founded the Vision-Box, which turned out to be involved in the first biometric passports in the Uk. Later developed the kiosks electronic systems and portals that use speech recognition biometric facial that help the travelers to pass quickly through immigration and customs.

In a simplified form, the system, which speeds up the flow of passengers, it works like this: instead of a passport control traditional, responsible for the long queues, the passenger is directed to one of the portals electronic and only goes up if your passport is authentic and if it is really the holder of the document, the control shall be done from control biometric facial.

The Vision-Box, was, according to the start-up in lisbon, the first company to develop a system of portals electronic-based face recognition for biometrics. Currently, he claims to have installed in all of the world’s 1,200 systems of border control and management of passenger flow at the land borders, sea and air of 150 countries, authenticating each year 100 million passengers.

Holder of numerous national and international awards, the company had in 2015 with around 200 employees, and recorded a billing of about € 28 million.