FIVE QUICK STEPS TO FLY

At airport terminal entry gate, passenger puts phone with boarding code on QR scanner, and finger on biometric reader.

If details match, AEEBBS opens terminal door, and creates a passenger dataset on airport’s local server.

AEEBBS asks UIDAI’s server if aadhaar number in boarding pass matches passenger fingerprint, and asks airport server if passenger is flying that day.

Passenger enters terminal, and proceeds to check-in where she presents her thumb on biometric reader and drops off her bags. System prints out baggage tags. If traveling without bags, passenger bypasses check-in counter and goes straight to security check.

AEEBBS matches the passenger’s fingerprint against the passenger dataset that was created in Step 1, and preserved on the airport’s local servers.

Security Check: Passenger presents fingerprint. Gates open, and passenger is frisked by security guard and proceeds to boarding gate.

Once more, AEEBBS matches fingerprint against ‘passenger dataset’ stored on airport server to confirm the traveller’s identity.

At boarding gate, passenger presents fingerprint one final time to get onto the aircraft.

Repeated presentation of fingerprint at each stage, means passengers are tracked across the terminal, and authorities know the number of travellers in each secured zone of the airport.

Passenger boards flight and takes her assigned seat. Flight departs.

AEEBBS erases biometric information from the passenger dataset, but retains flight information for

30 days. If flight is delayed, biometrics are retained until flight departs.