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'Total Solution' For Identifying Airport Passengers

Two security systems, being tested at Logan International Airport, are combined to help identify fraudulent travel documents.

WOODBURY, N.Y. -- Intelli-Check and Imaging Automation Inc. have combined to offer technology that will help keep the nation's airports, ports of entry and border crossings safe it was announced recently.

Intelli-Check has licensed its patented ID-CHECK technology to Imaging Automation. The technology enables users to detect fraudulent and tempered ID cards such as travel passports. It is capable of validating the authenticity of encoded driver licenses and will be an element of Imaging Automation's BorderGuard system, which identifies forged or fraudulent travel identification documents.

"By combining our driver's license technology with Imaging Automation's passport technology, we complete the document verification system," said Frank Mandelbaum, chairman and chief executive officer of Intelli-Check. "Since 97 percent of passengers usually present a driver's license as proof of identity when boarding airplanes and 3 percent use passports for this purpose, our combined technologies present the only 'total solution' for verifying (identification) at airports where passports are presented for identification purposes."

The ID-CHECK system and the BorderGuard system are currently being tested at Logan International Airport in Boston.