Future Security: Walk-through scenarios for the body scanner

Future Security: Walk-through scenarios for the body scanner
This raises the IATA "Checkpoint of the Future". This raises the IATA "Checkpoint of the Future". Image: IATA After the provisional end for body scanners at German airports and the EU's decision that nude scanner images do not violate human dignity, discussed the use of terahertz technology (THz) for the fiercely Future Security in Berlin. The German family wants Rohde & Schwarz is here with L-3 Communications record, the ninth largest defense contractor in the world. The aim is to find a solution as close to the lies propagated by the IATA "Checkpoint of the Future". Here, the passenger walks through a hallway along with hand luggage, in which all sorts of sensors to test whether he is an honest person.
Amidst the many scientific presentations of the Future Security of corporate sales presentations are real rare. Even Martin Borrett IBM remained at his back peppered with buzzwords Keynote for cybersecurity and praised the work of 18 short-security centers at IBM, the cyber-incidents in 133 countries observe and analyze. A proper sales pitch delivered from Andreas Strecker of Cassidian, which the security radar system introduced SPEX, which is primarily aimed at locating and identifying small UAVs (UAVs) optimized.
A curious blend of sales pitch and presentation on airport security, Christian Evers presented by the company Rohde & Schwarz. Because the product, a walk-through system for hand luggage and passengers alike, should be ready for evaluation by Evers in only 8 to 10 years. Traverse to the PAXe casually strolling one passage in which they are examined from a variety of sensors to detect explosives, weapons and dangerous liquids down, you go back to Rohde & Schwarz on two developments that are later to the walk-through are used. On the one hand you want to use a passive detection system (PDF file), which is developed by IPHT Jena, on the other hand scanner of the Qpass LHFT Erlangen, which is being developed under the project TeraTom (PDF file).
The Qpass system discovers a gun - at least according to the ideas of the developers. The Qpass system discovers a gun - at least according to the ideas of the developers. Image: Detlef Borchers H / online Qpass is a 2 meter high fence of 3000 THz transmitters and receivers 3000, which are arranged in 32 clusters, in order to scan a body. Rohde & Schwarz will use two scanners Qpass as double panel, scan the front and rear of each passenger or in the side view. In this way, the investigation to be completed in 9 seconds, which approaches the 5 seconds needed for the passing through of conventional metal detectors.
Whether all the assumptions and comparison with the competition from Rohde & Schwarz are more show than a "Concept of Operations", the future. However, it became clear that the body has to stop the scanner field tests in Hamburg started the discussion about the application of THz technology just beginning. Further talks on the security researcher showed that the possibilities in the THz-wave range have not yet been exhausted. Can help the THz-spectroscopy for the detection of hazardous liquids, and there are attempts to produce analogous to sensors in CCD cameras THz sensors in arrays, which in turn can lead to a handy THz scanners for mobile security.