Automatic face recognition security at Airport.

New heights of self check-in!

When a new terminal opens in 2017 at Singapore's Changi Airport, the world's best for five years straight according to a survey, passengers will be able to, in theory, go through check-in to boarding without speaking to another person.

Next generation of automation

Automation is important for the city-state as it faces a labor crunch across many of its industries. It is also key for Changi given it is the world's sixth busiest for international traffic and is already operating close to total capacity, having last added a terminal almost a decade ago.

Face says it all

Changi will be using facial recognition technology to offer self-service options at check-in, bag drop, immigration and boarding at the new terminal T4 - which according to Corrine Png, CEO of transport research firm Crucial Perspective Pte, "will be the first in Asia to do so".

Changi's dream project

Changi expects the automated process at the new terminal - which has been constructed for S$985 million - to yield manpower savings of about 20 percent in the longer term. T4 will increase the airport's overall annual capacity by 16 million passengers to 82 million.

Size of 30 football fields!

With a gross floor area of 225,000 square meters, equivalent to about 30 soccer pitches, T4 is half the size of Changi's third terminal, but it will still be able to handle two-thirds the number of its passengers.

Trying out new technologies

"One of the objectives for T4 was to use it as a test bed for new concepts, new technology and new equipment," said Poh Li San, Changi Airport Group's vice president, T4 Programme Management Office.

Keeping up with an ever-growing demand

The city-state will have a fifth terminal up and running in about a decade that will be capable of handling 50 million passengers annually in its initial phase.

In 2016, passenger traffic in Changi hit a record high of 58.7 million. Routes to Southeast Asia, north east Asia and Oceania contributed 90 percent of the growth.

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