Thursday, November 22, 2007

DP2 HL SECURITY and TRAVEL (P&G)

Salsa, Jamsheed, Arif & Samuel
The Use of Smartgate for self-checking in. What is a smartgate? Research the new Smartgate system being used in Australia

a) Describe how it works and what technology it uses.
b) Are there other types of smartgate system? Describe how they work.
b) Discuss the impact this has on

i) airport staff
ii) travelers
iii) would be terrorists


Alex, Katalina, Sheliza and Owais
Technology is also being used to assist in the scanning of luggage and passengers – with the aim of reducing the risks of passengers carrying explosives or weapons of terrorism.

a) Describe the technology being used to sniff out explosives

b) Research the High tech body scanners now being trialed in train stations in the UK.

c) Describe how the Rapiscan Systems is used and compare this with other stripping scanning systems.
Read the article in the link below to support the above
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-15-airport-xray-bottomstrip_x.htm

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