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Boarding at your fingertips - Siemens Business Services introduces its new airport solution
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[09/07/06]
Checking in with your mobile phone, selecting your seat and then using your fingerprint to board the plane: the new solution from Siemens Business Services makes the conventional magnetic-strip boarding card superfluous and provides faster boarding and improved security for passengers. Siemens Business Services is demonstrating the solution at Peking's Interairport China from September 6-8, 2006.

In many countries, passengers already have to show ID at the gate before boarding the plane - and the trend is clearly on the rise. By combining fingerprint-based boarding checks with check-in by mobile phone, Siemens Business Services is offering airlines a way of meeting the growing requirements for both safety and convenience, as frequent flyers and business travellers can save valuable time by using their mobile phones to check in and board.

The passenger's finger is the key to the solution. A fingerprint is registered once in person with an airline or at the airport, and the resulting biometric data is then stored in a database. With just the touch of a thumb and registration by internet, passengers can download the mobile phone check-in program to their handset. Using their mobile or PDA to connect to the airline's reservation system, passengers can select their flight and choose their preferred seat. Seconds later, they receive a barcode on their mobile which serves as an electronic boarding card, and also includes their fingerprint in encrypted format. When boarding, passengers hold this "electronic boarding card" in front of a scanner and place a thumb on a reading device for clear identification. Alternatively, the fingerprint can also be printed on a conventional boarding card in the form of a barcode - for airports which have not yet installed a scanner for mobile devices, or for passengers who do not want their biometric data to be stored. In both cases passengers can board faster, since time-consuming ID checks at the gate are no longer required.

Siemens Business Services has developed the entire solution using the ID Center platform from Austrian Siemens subsidiary PSE. Mobile check-in and biometric solution can also be used independently of one another.

Siemens Business Services is an internationally leading IT service provider.

This Siemens Group offers services all along the IT service chain from a single source - from consulting to systems integration, right through to the management of IT infrastructures. Thanks to comprehensive know-how and sector-specific expertise, the company provides measurable added value for its customers. With regard to outsourcing and IT maintenance, Siemens Business Services is among the top ten providers worldwide. Sales in fiscal year 2005 (ending 30 September 2005) came to around EUR 5,4 billion, 75 percent of which was achieved outside the Siemens organization. The company currently has approx. 39,000 employees worldwide. Further information at http://www.siemens.com/sbs.

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