Managing the Border, Smartly

Whatever the future holds in terms of new regulations and processes, the trend will be to record and secure border crossings for an increasing share of eligible passengers. In order for this trend to be derived into effective and efficient execution as well as for passengers to experience a fluent journey despite this increase of security requirements, performing an identification of passengers through a unique identifier, providing facilitated and automated checks and being capable to identify and then trace persons of interest will be needed and very valuable tracks to follow in order to achieve these objectives. The extent and pace to which these tracks will be followed and soundly articulated together will define how smartly the borders will be managed in the future.